FBI agency record
Cambridge Police Department
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Serves ~119,192 residents · LEMAS survey
The Cambridge Police Department is the municipal police department for the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Formally organized in 1859. with the appointment of John C. Willey as the first chief of police, the Cambridge Police Department was then staffed by only 16 officers. The Cambridge Police Department moved its headquarters location on December 8, 2008. The police department is now located in the Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility at 125 Sixth Street in the neighborhood of East Cambridge, leaving their Central Square location after 135 years.
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Crime & staffing trends
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NIBRS incident detail
Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
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Open data
Cambridge Open DataPortal
Possible sources (10) — portal matches not yet confirmed
OBSOLETE: Cambridge Crime Overview - By Neighborhood CambridgeGIS
CPD Crash Logdata.cambridgema.gov
Daily Police Logdata.cambridgema.gov
PUBLICSAFETY_PoliceBusinessRegionsdata.cambridgema.gov
PUBLICSAFETY_PoliceCarRoutesdata.cambridgema.gov
PUBLICSAFETY_PoliceResponseDistrictsdata.cambridgema.gov
PUBLICSAFETY_PoliceSectorsdata.cambridgema.gov
PUBLICSAFETY_PoliceStationdata.cambridgema.gov
PUBLICSAFETY_PoliceWalkingRoutesdata.cambridgema.gov
Police Citationsdata.cambridgema.gov
Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 288
- Part-time sworn
- 0
- Full-time civilian
- 41
- Part-time civilian
- 56
- Total FT employees
- 329
- Population served
- 119,192
- Operating budget
- $61,762,945
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
Employment counts for this agency are available through the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
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POP conference activity
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