FBI agency record
St. Petersburg Police Department
Pinellas County, Florida
Serves ~269,098 residents · UCR reported
The St Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) provides crime prevention and public safety services for the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. The department was created in 1903. The St. Petersburg Police Department has an authorized strength of 550 sworn officers and 212 civilian support staff. The department serves the fifth largest city in the state of Florida, with a population of 250,000. The St. Petersburg Police Department is one of over 1,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).
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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
This agency does not report incident-based (NIBRS) data to the FBI, so no victim, offender, or weapon breakdowns are available. Summary-level reporting may still appear in the trends above.
Open data
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Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 554
- Part-time sworn
- 0
- Full-time civilian
- 217
- Part-time civilian
- 104
- Total FT employees
- 771
- Population served
- 267,802
- Operating budget
- $118,000,000
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 531
- Civilians (2025)
- 299
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
POP conference activity
Stemming the Drug Flow on 28 Street South
2003 · Submission
Adult Living Facility Task Force
1997 · Submission
Healthy Options Promoting Esteem
1997 · Submission
Repeat Alcoholic Offenders in Downtown St. Petersburg
1997 · Submission
Open and Unsolved Homicide Team Cases which Require Your Assistance
1997 · Submission
Project Respect: Childs Park Area
1996 · Submission
911 Abuse
1996 · Winner
Baypoint Middle School Project
1995 · Submission
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