Skip to content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Skip to content
  • Contact Data.gov

  • Directory of Law Enforcement Agencies Series

    Metadata Updated: February 13, 2023

    Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Bureau of Justice Statistics periodically sponsors a census of the nation's state and local law enforcement agencies. This census, known as the Directory Survey, gathers data on all police and sheriffs' department that are publicly funded and employ at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers. Variables include personnel totals, type of agency, geographic location of agency, and whether the agency had the legal authority to hold a person beyond arraignment for 48 or more hours.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

    Collection

    This dataset is a collection of other datasets.

    Search datasets within this collection

    Downloads & Resources

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date February 13, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2436
    Data First Published 1987-10-12T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2011-08-03T13:27:33
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Metadata true
    Harvest Object Id 4a46c6cf-d6d8-40ef-a015-084de941f7f7
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e9380c3654cbce28b028249e2e6ee42f61246a2a
    Source Schema Version 1.1

    Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here.

    data.gov

    An official website of the GSA's Technology Transformation Services

    Looking for U.S. government information and services?
    Visit USA.gov