This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 142 law enforcement agencies employing 16,013 sworn police officers, about 283 for each 100,000 residents.

State agencies

* Maryland Capitol Police * Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Police * Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation Police *

Maryland Natural Resources Police The Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) is the law enforcement arm of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), tasked with enforcing laws on the state's public lands and waterways, protecting fish and wildlife, and leading search ...

* Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Police Department * Maryland Office of the Comptroller *

Maryland State Police The Maryland State Police (MSP), officially the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP), is the official state police force of the U.S. state of Maryland. The Maryland State Police is headquartered at 1201 Reisterstown Road in the Pikesville ...

** Maryland State Fire Marshal *

Maryland Transit Administration Police The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation. The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Baltimore-Washingt ...

Maryland Transportation Authority Police The Maryland Transportation Authority Police is the eighth-largest law enforcement agency in the U.S. state of Maryland and is charged with providing law enforcement services on Maryland Transportation Authority highways and facilities throughou ...

* Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Police **

Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) is a government agency of the State of Maryland that performs a number of functions, including the operation of state prisons. It has its headquarters in Towson, Maryland, ...

County agencies

* Allegany County Sheriff's Office *

Anne Arundel County Police Department The Anne Arundel County Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, serving a population of more than 564,195 per 2015 census estimates across of jurisdiction. The Department was creat ...

* Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office * Baltimore County Police Department *

Baltimore County Sheriff's Office The Baltimore County Sheriff's Office (BCoSO) is the enforcement arm of the Baltimore County, Maryland court and is headquartered in the Baltimore County Circuit Courthouses, Baltimore County Courthouse, in the County Seat of Towson, Maryland. ...

Calvert County Sheriff's Office The Calvert County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing over 87,000 residents and in Calvert County, Maryland. History The CCSO was founded in 1654. In 2001, Sheriff Vonzell R. Ward resigned while under inves ...

* Carroll County Sheriff's Office * Caroline County Sheriff's Department * Cecil County Sheriff's Office * Charles County Sheriff's Office * Dorchester County Sheriff's Office * Frederick County Sheriff's Office * Garrett County Sheriff's Office *

Harford County Sheriff's Office The Harford County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is the second largest sheriff's office in Maryland and is the primary law enforcement agency servicing a population of 241,402 persons within within Harford County, MD. History The HCSO was created on ...

Howard County Police Department The Howard County Police Department (HCPD) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing 330,558 (20202) persons within the of Howard County, Maryland. History From the founding of Howard County until 1894, the county's law enforcement responsi ...

Howard County Sheriff's Office The Howard County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is a law enforcement organization which acts as the enforcement arm of the Howard County court system and services Howard County, Maryland, population 328,200. Its mission centers around providing judi ...

* Kent County Sheriff's Office *

Montgomery County Police Department The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), officially the Montgomery County Department of Police (MCP), is a nationally accredited agency and the primary law enforcement agency of Montgomery County, Maryland, providing the full spectrum ...

* Montgomery County Sheriff's Office *

Prince George's County Police Department The Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD) is the primary law enforcement agency in Prince George's County, Maryland in the United States, servicing a population of over 900,000 residents and visitors within 498 square miles (1,290&n ...

Prince George's County Sheriff's Office The Prince George's County Sheriff's Office (PGSO), officially the Office of the Sheriff, Prince George's County, provides law enforcement services in Prince George's County, Maryland in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Upper ...

* Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office *

St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency servicing St. Mary's County, Maryland, St. Mary's County, Maryland. It has a direct jurisdiction of servicing (as of 2010) a population of 105,151 people. History The ...

* Somerset County Sheriff's Office * Talbot County Sheriff's Office * Washington County Sheriff's Office *

Wicomico County Sheriff's Office The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing Wicomico County, Maryland. The WCSO was established in 1867 and is responsible for the protection of life and property, enforcing orders of the court, an ...

Worcester County Sheriff's Office The Worcester County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency of Worcester County, and serves a population of 46,543 residents in of Worcester County, Maryland Worcester County is the easternmost county of the U.S. stat ...

Municipal agencies

Aberdeen Police Department The Aberdeen Police Department (APD) is the primary police agency servicing a population of 14,130 within of the municipality of Aberdeen, Maryland. History The Bailiff provided the police function for the Town. Apparently there had been some p ...

* Annapolis Police Department *

Baltimore Police Department The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is the municipal police department of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Dating back to 1784, the BPD, consisting of 2,935 employees in 2020, is organized into nine districts covering of land and of waterway ...

* Baltimore City Schools Police * Baltimore City Sheriff's Office * Baltimore City Environmental Police *

Bel Air Police Department The Bel Air Police Department (BAPD) is a full-service agency servicing the incorporated Municipality of Bel Air, Maryland. The department is located in the Harford county seat of Bel Air at 39 North Hickory Avenue, Bel Air, Maryland 21014. B ...

* Berlin Police Department * Berwyn Heights Police Department * Bladensburg Police Department * Boonsboro Police Department *

Bowie Police Department The Bowie City Police Department (BPD) is the primary law enforcement agency for Bowie, Maryland, servicing a population of 54,884 (2004 census estimate) in of the municipality.

Brentwood Police Department Brentwood is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population is 66,854 as of 2022, an increase of 287% from 23,302 at the 2000 census. Brentwood began ...

Brunswick Police Department Brunswick is the historical English name for the German city of Braunschweig ( Low German: ''Brunswiek'', Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek''). Brunswick may also refer to: Places and other topographs Australia * Brunswick, Victoria, a suburb ...

Cambridge Police Department 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 Po ...

* Capitol Heights Police Department * Centreville Police Department * Chestertown Police Department * Cheverly Police Department *

Chevy Chase Village Police Department Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941) and oust ...

* Colmar Manor Police Department * Cottage City Police Department * Crofton Police Department *

Crisfield Police Department Crisfield is a city in Somerset County, Maryland, United States, located on the Tangier Sound, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. The population was 2,515 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statist ...

* Cumberland Police Department * Delmar Police Department * Denton Police Department *

District Heights Police Department District Heights is an incorporated municipality in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located near Maryland Route 4. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,959. For more information, see the separate articles on Forestville an ...

* Easton Police Department * Edmonston Police Department * Elkton Police Department * Fairmont Heights Police Department * Federalsburg Police Department * Forest Heights Police Department * Frederick City Police Department * Frostburg City Police Department * Fruitland Police Department *

Gaithersburg Police Department The Gaithersburg Police Department (GPD) is the municipal police force of Gaithersburg, Maryland. History 1963–1986: Founding The Gaithersburg Police Department was founded on April 1, 1963, when a resolution creating it was signed into ...

* Gibson Island Police * Glenarden Police Department * Greenbelt Police Department *

Greensboro Police Department Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the Un ...

* Hagerstown Police Department * Hampstead Police Department *

Hancock Police Department Hancock may refer to: Places in the United States * Hancock, Iowa * Hancock, Maine * Hancock, Maryland * Hancock, Massachusetts * Hancock, Michigan * Hancock, Minnesota * Hancock, Missouri * Hancock, New Hampshire ** Hancock (CDP), New Hampshire * ...

Havre De Grace Police Department The Havre De Grace Police Department (HDGPD) is a full-service agency servicing the incorporated municipality of Havre De Grace, Maryland. Established in 1981, HDGPD is Havre De Grace's primary law enforcement agency. Chief The Chief is Teresa ...

* Hurlock Police Department * Hyattsville City Police Department * Landover Hills Police Department *

La Plata Police Department LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...

* Laurel Police Department *

Manchester Police Department Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The tw ...

* Morningside Police Department *

Mount Airy Police Department Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

* Mount Rainier Police Department * New Carrollton Police Department * North East Police Department *

Oakland Police Department The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is a law enforcement agency responsible for policing the city of Oakland, California, United States. As of May 2021, the department employed 709 sworn officers and 371 civilian employees. The department is div ...

Ocean City Police Department The Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) is a full-time-service law enforcement agency providing police services to a population of 7,031 people within of the municipality of Ocean City, MD. History The OCPD began its tenure in the summer of ...

* Ocean Pines Police Department * Oxford Police Department * Perryville Police Department * Pokomoke City Police Department * Port Deposit Police Department *

Princess Anne Police Department Princess is a regal rank and the feminine equivalent of prince (from Latin ''princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a king or prince. Princess as a subst ...

* Ridgley Police Department *

Rising Sun Police Department Rising may refer to: * Rising, a stage in baking - see Proofing (baking technique) *Elevation * Short for Uprising, a rebellion Film and TV * "Rising" (''Stargate Atlantis''), the series premiere of the science fiction television program ''Starga ...

* Riverdale Park Police Department *

Rockville City Police Department The Rockville City Police Department (RCPD) is a U.S. law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling the city of Rockville, the third largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland. The RCPD patrols the city in cooperation with the Montgomery Coun ...

Rock Hall Police Department Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a List of United Ki ...

* St. Michaels Police Department * Salisbury Police Department * Seat Pleasant Police Department *

Smithsburg Police Department Smithsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,975 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Smithsburg is close to the former Fort Ritchie army base and just west of the p ...

Snow Hill Police Department Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...

Sykesville Police Department Sykesville may refer to a location in the United States: * Sykesville, Maryland, in Carroll County * Sykesville, New Jersey, in Burlington County * Sykesville, Pennsylvania, in Jefferson County {{Geodis ...

Takoma Park Police Department The Takoma Park Police Department (TPPD) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing a population of approximately 17,670 (2014 est.), within of the municipality of Takoma Park, Maryland. Until July 1, 1997, the TPPD was aided by both the P ...

* Taneytown Police Department * Thurmont Police Department * University Park Police Department *

Upper Marlboro Police Department Upper Marlboro, officially the Town of Upper Marlboro, is the county seat, seat of Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County, Maryland. Aso of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 652. although Greater U ...

Westminster Police Department Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster. The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many Tourism in London, visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of W ...

University agencies

* Anne Arundel Community College, Department of Public Safety & Police *

Baltimore City Community College Department of Public Safety Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was d ...

* Bowie State University, Department of Public Safety * Breakthrough Bible College Police Office of Law Enforcement & Public Safety * Carroll Community College Campus Police Department * Cecil College Public Safety * Community College of Baltimore County Department of Public Safety * Coppin State University Police Department *

Frostburg State University Police Department Frostburg State University (FSU) is a public university in Frostburg, Maryland. The university is the only four-year institution of the University System of Maryland west of the Baltimore-Washington passageway in the state's Appalachian highland ...

Harford Community College Department of Public Safety Harford may refer to: Places ;Australia: * Harford, Tasmania, a locality in Tasmania ;United States: * Harford, Pennsylvania a village in Susquehanna County * Harford, New York, a town in Cortland County * Harford County, Maryland ;United Kingdom ...

* Hood College Department of Campus Safety * Johns Hopkins University Campus Safety and Security * Loyola University Maryland Department of Public Safety * McDaniel College Department of Campus Safety & Campus Police Unit * Montgomery College Public Safety * Morgan State University Police Department * Prince George's Community College Campus Police Department *

Salisbury University Police Department Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland. Founded in 1925, Salisbury is a member of the University System of Maryland, with a fall 2016 enrollment of 8,748. Salisbury University offers 42 distinct undergraduate and 14 ...

* St. Mary's College of Maryland Office of Public Safety * St. Johns College Public Safety * Towson University Police Department *

United States Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy ...

- Naval Support Activity - Annapolis Police *

University of Baltimore Police Department The University of Baltimore (UBalt, UB) is a public university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is part of the University System of Maryland. UBalt's schools and colleges provide education in business, law, public affairs, and the applied arts and sc ...

* University of Maryland, Baltimore Police Department * University of Maryland, Baltimore County Police Department * University of Maryland, College Park Police Department * University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Department of Public Safety

Law enforcement units within fire agencies

Maryland Transportation Authority Police

* Annapolis Fire Department - Office of the Fire Marshal **

Bomb Squad Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. ''Bomb disposal'' is an all-encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the militar ...

* Anne Arundel County Fire Department - Office of the Fire Marshal * Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service - Fire & Explosive Investigations **

* Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department - Office of the Fire Marshal **

Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue - Office of the Fire Marshal Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...

* City of Hagerstown Fire Department - Office of the Fire Marshal *

Ocean City Fire Marshal Office The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of Saline water, salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Water distribution on Earth, Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the ...

Other agencies

* Aberdeen Proving Ground Police *

Amtrak Police The Amtrak Police Department (APD) is a quasi-federal railroad police department and the law enforcement agency of Amtrak (also known as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation), the government-owned passenger train system in the United Sta ...

* CSX Railroad Police * Federal Protective Service * Fort Detrick Police * Fort Meade Police * Gibson Island Police *

Maryland-National Capital Park Police The Maryland-National Capital Park Police (MNCPP) is the law enforcement branch of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC) and has two divisions, one in Prince George's County and one in Montgomery County in Maryland. ...

* Metro Transit *

National Institutes of Health Police The National Institutes of Health Division of Police (NIH DP) are the police force that police and protect National Institutes of Health (NIH) people and property. Locations The NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, consists of approximately 75 buildings t ...

* National Institute of Standards and Technology Police * National Security Agency Police * Office of the United States Marshal for the District of Maryland * United States Naval District of Washington Police - Naval Support Activity - Annapolis &

US Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy is ...

United States Park Police The United States Park Police (USPP) is one of the oldest uniformed federal law enforcement agencies in the United States. It functions as a full-service law enforcement agency with responsibilities and jurisdiction in those National Park Servic ...

* United States Special Investigation Service *

National Park Service Ranger National Park Service rangers are among the uniformed employees charged with protecting and preserving areas set aside in the National Park System by the United States Congress and the President of the United States. While all employees of the age ...

(Law Enforcement) * United States Coast Guard Police Department, Baltimore *

United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police (VA Police) is the uniformed law enforcement service of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, responsible for the protection of the VA Medical Centers (VAMC) and other facilities such as ...

* United States Naval District of Washington Police - Naval Support Activity - Bethesda * United States Naval District of Washington Police - Naval Support Facility - Indian Head * United States Naval District of Washington Police - Naval Air Station - Patuxent River *

Naval Criminal Investigative Service The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the primary law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Its primary function is to investigate criminal activities involving the Navy and Marine Corps, though its ...

* United States Army Criminal Investigations Division Command

Defunct agencies

*Housing Authority of Baltimore City Police Force * Baltimore City Park Police * Barton Police Department * Charlestown Police Department * Chesapeake Beach Police Department * Clear Spring Police Department * Emmitsburg Police Department * Goldsboro Police Department * Kitzmiller Police Department * Leonardtown Police Department * Lonaconing Police Department * Luke Police Department * North Beach Police Department * New Windsor Police Department * Sparrows Point Police Department * Trappe Police Department * Union Bridge Police Department * Westernport Police Department * Williamsport Police Department * Willards Police Department * Woodland Beach Police Department * Allegany County Bureau of Police * Naval Station Annapolis Police Department (Merged with US Naval Academy PD to form NDW - NSA-Annapolis) * US Naval Academy Police Department (Merged with NAVSTA Annapolis PD to form NDW - NSA-Annapolis)

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