The Binghamton Police Department (BPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency responsible for providing law enforcement services to the City of
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...
. The Binghamton Police Department was founded in 1867 and in 2023, had 142 sworn
police officer
A police officer (also called a policeman and, less commonly, a policewoman) is a warranted law employee of a police force. In most countries, "police officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank. In some, the use of the ...
s, and 13 civilian employees.
The Binghamton Police Department are headquartered at
Government Plaza, in
Downtown Binghamton
Downtown Binghamton is a neighborhood in Binghamton, New York located on the north bank of the Susquehanna River, just east of its confluence with the Chenango River. It is the business and administrative center of the City of Binghamton, the Gr ...
, New York.
Organization
The Binghamton Police Department has a variety of different specialist components & divisions that allow it to carry out its law enforcement responsibilities.
There are several divisions
within the department including:
* Patrol Division
* Metro SWAT (a joint SWAT unit with officers from numerous Broome county agencies)
* Detective Division
* Special Investigations Unit (a joint investigations unit with detectives from numerous Broome County agencies)
* Community Response Team
* Traffic Division
* Training Division
* Juvenile Division
* Crime Scene Unit
* Crime Prevention Division
* Warrant Unit
Department controversies
In 2023, the department settled a case of racial discrimination.
Ranks
Line of duty deaths
See also
*
List of law enforcement agencies in New York State
References
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