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Meriden Police Department

City agencyCT0008000NIBRS since 2021LEMAS 2020

South Central Connecticut Planning Region County, Connecticut

Serves ~58,981 residents · LEMAS survey

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Crime & staffing trends

No snapshot trend data is stored for this agency yet. Explore its full crime and employment history directly on the FBI Crime Data Explorer, which covers UCR summary data, NIBRS incidents, and police employment for ORI CT0008000.

NIBRS incident detail

NIBRS victims by offense · Jan 2021Dec 2024

Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Arson: victim & offender age · 25 victims, 23 offenders
Victim sex
Female13 (52%)
Male12 (48%)
Victim race
White24 (96%)
Black or African American1 (4%)
Incident location
Residence/Home22 (67%)
Commercial/Office Building3 (9%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk3 (9%)
Parking/Drop Lot/Garage2 (6%)
Other/Unknown1 (3%)
Park/Playground1 (3%)

Top 6 of 7 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Boyfriend/Girlfriend1 (50%)
Ex-Relationship (Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend)1 (50%)
Co-occurring offenses
Aggravated Assault2 (50%)
Theft From Motor Vehicle1 (25%)
Drug/Narcotic Violations1 (25%)

Open data

No open-data portal has been found for this agency. Discovery sweeps Socrata, ArcGIS, and CKAN portals on a schedule, so this can change. Know of a portal or dataset this agency publishes? Tell us.

Staffing

LEMAS 2020 survey
Full-time sworn
120
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
22
Part-time civilian
36
Total FT employees
142
Population served
58,981
Operating budget
$13,346,250
Body-worn cameras: yesCommunity policing plan: yes

Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
201312029$13,000,000
200712013$10,758,473
200313413$9,615,805
200012810$7,532,253
199912211
19971295
199310217
199011718

Staffing as reported in each BJS LEMAS survey wave; wave links go to the ICPSR study pages.

FBI police employment

Employment counts for this agency are available through the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Open data

No open data sources are catalogued for this agency yet. FBI reported-crime data is still available via the Crime Data Explorer link above.

POP conference activity

No POP conference submissions matched to this agency in our records.

Agencies like this one

Compared by size, crime mix, rates, and staffing within the same agency class · precomputed from FBI trend and NIBRS data. Methodology: agency-metrics/metrics-spec.md

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