List of law enforcement agencies in New Mexico
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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of
New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 146 law enforcement agencies employing 5,010 sworn police officers, about 252 for each 100,000 residents. This is almost exactly the national average of policemen to residents in the
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State agencies

* New Mexico Department of Public Safety **
New Mexico State Police New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...
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New Mexico Mounted Patrol The New Mexico Mounted Patrol is an all-volunteer state law enforcement agency. Mounted Patrol Troopers complete an intensive night/weekend academy and must meet the same strict requirements as any peace officer in New Mexico. State statutes dic ...
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New Mexico Attorney General's Office The Attorney General of New Mexico, an elected executive officer of the state, oversees the New Mexico Attorney General's Office and serves as head of the New Mexico Department of Justice. The officeholder, who is required to be a licensed atto ...
* New Mexico Board of Pharmacy *
New Mexico Corrections Department The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD; es, Departamento de Correcciones de Nuevo México) is a state agency of New Mexico, headquartered in unincorporated Santa Fe County, near Santa Fe. It the department operates corrections facilities, ...
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New Mexico Department of Game and Fish The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) is a state-level government department within the New Mexico Governor's Cabinet that is responsible for maintaining wildlife and fish in the state. The NMDGF undertakes protection, conservation and ...
* New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department ** New Mexico State Forestry Division *** Special Agents ** New Mexico State Parks Division ***
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* New Mexico Livestock Inspector Board *
New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department The New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department is the state agency responsible for collecting and distributing governmental revenue in New Mexico and administering the state's motor vehicle code. The Taxation and Revenue Department collects taxes w ...
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** Tax Fraud Investigations Division


County agencies

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Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department Bernalillo () is a town in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 8,320. It is the county seat of Sandoval County. Bernalillo is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. Histor ...
* Catron County Sheriff's Department * Chaves County Sheriff’s Office * Cibola County Sheriff's Office * Colfax County Sheriff's Office * Curry County Sheriff's Office * De Baca County Sheriff's Office * Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office * Eddy County Sheriff's Office * Grant County Sheriff's Department * Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office * Harding County Sheriff's Department * Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department * Lea County Sheriff's Department * Lincoln County Sheriff's Office * Los Alamos County Police Department * Luna County Sheriff's Office * McKinley County Sheriff's Office * Mora County Sheriff's Office * Otero County Sheriff's Department * Quay County Sheriff's Office * Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Office * Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office * San Juan County Sheriff's Office * San Miguel County Sheriff's Office * Sandoval County Sheriff's Office * Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office * Sierra County Sheriff's Office * Socorro County Sheriff's Department * Taos County Sheriff's Department * Torrance County Sheriff's Department * Union County Sheriff's Office * Valencia County Sheriff's Office


City agencies

* Alamogordo Police Department *
Albuquerque Police Department The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the largest police force in the state, with approximately 1,000 sworn officers in 2022. In addition to serving as the primary p ...
* Angel Fire Police Department * Anthony Police Department * Artesia Police Department * Aztec Police Department * Bayard Police Department * Belen Police Department * Bernalillo Police Department * Bloomfield Police Department * Bosque Farms Police Department * Buena Vista Police Department * Capitan Police Department * Carlsbad Police Department * Carrizozo Police Department * Cerrillos Police Department * Chama Police Department *
Clayton Police Department Clayton may refer to: People *Clayton (name) * Clayton baronets *The Clayton Brothers, Jeff and John, jazz musicians *Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, painter artists *Justice Clayton (disambiguation), the judges Clayton Places Canada * Clay ...
* Cloudcroft Police Department * Clovis Police Department * Corrales Police Department * Cuba Police Department * Deming Police Department * Edgewood Police Department * Española Police Department * Estancia Police Department * Farmington Police Department * Gallup Police Department * Grants Police Department * Hatch Police Department * Hobbs Police Department *
Hurley Police Department Hurley may refer to: Places ;In the United Kingdom: * Hurley, Berkshire * Hurley, Warwickshire * Hurley Common, Warwickshire ;In the United States: * Hurley, Alabama * Hurley, Mississippi * Hurley, Missouri * Hurley, New Mexico * Hurley, N ...
* Jemez Springs Police Department *
Lamy Police Department Lamy is a German pen manufacturing company. Josef Lamy, who was a sales representative for Parker Pen in Germany, founded the business in 1930 by purchasing the Orthos pen manufacturer. Lamy was a pioneer in the use of moulded synthetic pla ...
* Las Cruces Police Department * Las Vegas Police Department *
Lordsburg Police Department Lordsburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. Hidalgo County includes the southern "bootheel" of New Mexico, along the Arizona border. The population was 2,797 at the 2010 census, down from 3,379 in 20 ...
* Los Alamos Police Department * Los Lunas Police Department * Loving Police Department * Lovington Police Department * Magdalena Police Department * Mesilla Marshal's Department * Mora Police Department * Moriarty Police Department * Mountainair Police Department * Placitas Police Department * Portales Police Department *
Raton Police Department Raton or Ratón (Spanish for "mouse") may refer to: Places: * Raton Basin, a geologic structural basin in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico * Raton, New Mexico, the county seat of Colfax County, New Mexico ** Raton Downtown Historic ...
* Red River Marshal's Office * Rio Rancho Police Department * Roswell Police Department * Ruidoso Police Department * San Ysidro Marshal's Office *
Sandia Park Police Department "Sandía" is "watermelon" in Spanish. Sandia may also refer to: Places * Sandia, California, community in Imperial County * Sandia, Texas, town in the USA * Sandia, Peru, town in the Puno region of Peru, capital of ** Sandia Province, province in t ...
* Santa Fe Police Department * Santa Clara Police Department * Silver City Police Department * Socorro Police Department * Sunland Park Police Department * Taos Police Department * Tijeras Police Department * Truth Or Consequences Police Department * Tucumcari Police Department * Vaughn Police Department


Tribal agencies

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Acoma Pueblo Police Department Acoma may refer to: * Acoma (beetle), ''Acoma'' (beetle), a scarab beetle genus of subfamily Melolonthinae * Acoma Pueblo, a Native American pueblo * Acoma, Nevada, a ghost town * Acoma Township, McLeod County, Minnesota, US * , more than one ship ...
* Cochiti Pueblo Police Department *
Isleta Pueblo Police Department Pueblo of Isleta ( tix, Shiewhibak , kjq, Dîiw'a'ane ; nv, Naatoohó ) is an unincorporated community and Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established in the . The Southern Tiwa name of the pueblo ...
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Jemez Pueblo Police Department Jemez or Jémez may refer to *Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, a census-designated place in the United States ** Jemez Springs, New Mexico, a village **Jemez Mountains ** Jemez Mountains salamander (''Plethodon neomexicanus'') ** Jemez Mountains Electri ...
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Jicarilla Apache Police Department Jicarilla Apache (, Jicarilla language: Jicarilla Dindéi), one of several loosely organized autonomous bands of the Eastern Apache, refers to the members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation currently living in New Mexico and speaking a Southern Athab ...
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Laguna Pueblo Police Department Laguna (Italian and Spanish for lagoon) may refer to: People * Abe Laguna (born 1992), American DJ known as Ookay * Andrés Laguna (1499–1559), Spanish physician, pharmacologist, and botanist * Ana Laguna (born 1955), Spanish-Swedish ballet d ...
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Mescalero Apache Police Department Mescalero or Mescalero Apache ( apm, Naa'dahéńdé) is an Apache tribe of Southern Athabaskan–speaking Native Americans. The tribe is federally recognized as the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, located in south-ce ...
* Nambe Pueblo Police Department * Navajo Nation Department of Law Enforcement ** Chinle Police District ** Crownpoint Police District ** Dilcon Police District ** Kayenta Police District ** Shiprock Police District ** Tuba City Police District * Picuris Pueblo Police Department * Pojoaque Pueblo Police Department * Ramah Navaho Chapter Police Department *
Sandia Tribal Police "Sandía" is "watermelon" in Spanish. Sandia may also refer to: Places * Sandia, California, community in Imperial County * Sandia, Texas, town in the USA * Sandia, Peru, town in the Puno region of Peru, capital of ** Sandia Province, province in ...
* San Felipe Pueblo Police Department * San Ildefonso Pueblo Police Department * San Juan Pueblo Police Department *
Santa Ana Pueblo Police Department Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnight ...
* Santa Clara Pueblo Police Department * Santo Domingo Pueblo Police Department * Taos Pueblo Police Department *
Tesuque Pueblo Police Department Tesuque ( Tewa: Tetsʼúgéh Ówîngeh / Tetsugé Oweengé ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 909 at the ...
* Zia Pueblo Police Department * Zuni Pueblo Police Department


College and university agencies

* Eastern New Mexico University Police Department * New Mexico Highlands University Police Department *
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Police Department New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator ...
* New Mexico Military Institute Police Department * New Mexico State University Police Department * University of New Mexico Police Department * Western New Mexico University Police Department


Other agencies

* Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Police * Bureau of Indian Affairs Police * Albuquerque Public Schools Police * Office of the United States Marshal for the District of New Mexico


References

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New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
Law enforcement agencies of New Mexico
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