FBI agency record
Newark Police Department
Essex County, New Jersey
Serves ~318,638 residents · UCR reported
The Newark Police Division (NPD) is the police unit of the Newark Department of Public Safety in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Established in April 1857, it is the primary law enforcement agency serving Newark, and is the largest municipal law enforcement agency in New Jersey. As of December 2017, the division had 1,146 officers.
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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 29 categories shown.
Top 6 of 20 categories shown.
Open data
Newark Open DataPortal
Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 1,018
- Part-time sworn
- 0
- Full-time civilian
- 95
- Part-time civilian
- 0
- Total FT employees
- 1,113
- Population served
- 282,520
- Operating budget
- $220,436,453
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 1,119
- Civilians (2025)
- 307
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
58 published policy documents on PowerDMS.
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