FBI agency record
Buffalo Police Department
Erie County, New York
Serves ~276,384 residents · UCR reported
The Buffalo Police Department (BPD) is the second-largest city police force in the state of New York. In 2012, it had over nine hundred employees, including over seven hundred police 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.
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Open data
Buffalo OpenDataPortal
Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 734
- Part-time sworn
- 0
- Full-time civilian
- 284
- Part-time civilian
- 0
- Total FT employees
- 1,018
- Population served
- 254,479
- Operating budget
- $85,220,364
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 785
- Civilians (2025)
- 175
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
POP conference activity
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