FBI agency record
Mesa Police Department
Maricopa County, Arizona
Serves ~519,990 residents · UCR reported
The Mesa Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in Mesa, Arizona. The department employs 832 sworn police officers and 532 professional staff. The department is headed by Chief Dan Butler.
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Crime & staffing trends
Summary Reporting System counts from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
Police employment counts reported to the FBI UCR program.
NIBRS incident detail
Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
Top 6 of 41 categories shown.
Top 6 of 25 categories shown.
Top 6 of 34 categories shown.
Open data
City of Mesa open dataPortal
Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 818
- Part-time sworn
- 0
- Full-time civilian
- 421
- Part-time civilian
- 18
- Total FT employees
- 1,239
- Population served
- 528,159
- Operating budget
- $206,993,517
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 885
- Civilians (2025)
- 446
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
POP conference activity
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