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.

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 United States.^[1]

State agencies

New Mexico Department of Public Safety
- New Mexico State Police
New Mexico Mounted Patrol
New Mexico Attorney General's Office
New Mexico Board of Pharmacy
New Mexico Corrections Department
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department
- New Mexico State Forestry Division
  - Special Agents
- New Mexico State Parks Division
  - Park Rangers
New Mexico Livestock Inspector Board
New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department
- Office of the Inspector General
- Tax Fraud Investigations Division

County agencies

Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department^[2]
Catron County Sheriff's Department ^{[citation needed]}
Chaves County Sheriff’s Office^{[citation needed]}
Cibola County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Colfax County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Curry County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
De Baca County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Eddy County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Grant County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}

Harding County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Lea County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Los Alamos County Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Luna County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
McKinley County Sheriff's Office^[3]
Mora County Sheriff's Office^[4]
Otero County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Quay County Sheriff's Office^[5]
Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Office^[6]

Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
San Juan County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
San Miguel County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Sandoval County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Sierra County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Socorro County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Taos County Sheriff's Department^[7]
Torrance County Sheriff's Department^{[citation needed]}
Union County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}
Valencia County Sheriff's Office^{[citation needed]}

City agencies

Alamogordo Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Albuquerque Police Department^[8]
Angel Fire Police Department^[9]
Anthony Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Artesia Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Aztec Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Bayard Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Belen Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Bernalillo Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Bloomfield Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Bosque Farms Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Buena Vista Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Capitan Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Carlsbad Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Carrizozo Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Cerrillos Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Chama Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Clayton Police Department^[10]
Cloudcroft Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Clovis Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Corrales Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Cuba Police Department^{[citation needed]}

Deming Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Edgewood Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Española Police Department^[11]
Estancia Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Farmington Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Gallup Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Grants Police Department^[12]
Hatch Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Hobbs Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Hurley Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Jemez Springs Police Department^[13]
Lamy Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Las Cruces Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Las Vegas Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Lordsburg Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Los Alamos Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Los Lunas Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Loving Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Lovington Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Magdalena Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Mesilla Marshal's Department^{[citation needed]}
Mora Police Department^{[citation needed]}

Moriarty Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Mountainair Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Placitas Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Portales Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Raton Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Red River Marshal's Office^{[citation needed]}
Rio Rancho Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Roswell Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Ruidoso Police Department^{[citation needed]}
San Ysidro Marshal's Office^{[citation needed]}
Sandia Park Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Santa Fe Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Santa Clara Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Silver City Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Socorro Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Sunland Park Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Taos Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Tijeras Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Truth Or Consequences Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Tucumcari Police Department^{[citation needed]}
Vaughn Police Department^{[citation needed]}

Tribal agencies

Acoma Pueblo Police Department
Cochiti Pueblo Police Department
Isleta Pueblo Police Department
Jemez Pueblo Police Department
Jicarilla Apache Police Department
Laguna Pueblo Police Department
Mescalero Apache Police Department
Nambe Pueblo Police Department
Navajo Nation Department of Law Enforcement^[14]
- Chinle Police District
- Crownpoint Police District
- Dilcon Police District
- Kayenta Police District
- Shiprock Police District^[15]
- Tuba City Police District

Picuris Pueblo Police Department
Pojoaque Pueblo Police Department
Ramah Navaho Chapter Police Department
Sandia Tribal Police
San Felipe Pueblo Police Department
San Ildefonso Pueblo Police Department
San Juan Pueblo Police Department
Santa Ana Pueblo Police Department
Santa Clara Pueblo Police Department
Santo Domingo Pueblo Police Department
Taos Pueblo Police Department
Tesuque Pueblo Police Department
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 Mexico Military Institute Police Department^[16]

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^{[citation needed]}

Office of the United States Marshal for the District of New Mexico

References

^ 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, by Brian A Reaves, US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2011
^ Goldstein, Richard (22 November 2015). "Bob Foster, Whose Left Hook Decimated All but the Heavyweights, Dies at 76". New York Times. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
^ "Sheriffs Department". Welcome to Luna County. Luna County. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "County Sheriff". County of Mora. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "Sheriff". Quay County. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ Ex-New Mexico lawman gets 10 years in bizarre road rage case; by Russell Contreras, 21 January 21015, The Associated Press
^ Stiny, Andy (17 March 2015). "State cop fired over shooting hired as deputy in Taos". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
^ Albuquerque Police Continue to Thwart Transparency by Refusing to Release Footage from Shooting Death 49 By Carlos Miller, 3 September 2014, Photography is Not a Crime
^ "Police Department". Angel Fire. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
^ "Clayton police officer arrested, fired". Connect Amarillo. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
^ Last, T.S. (21 February 2015). "Santa Fe, Espanola officers charged by DA; both have worked for current SF chief". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
^ "Grants Police Department". Grants Police Department. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
^ Former Jemez Springs chief indicted on rape charges; by Nicole Perez, Albuquerque Journal, 7 August 2014
^ "Flags at Half-Staff for Navajo Police Officer Alex Yazzie, Killed in the Line of Duty". Indian Country Today. 21 March 2015.
^ "Flags at Half-Staff for Navajo Police Officer Alex Yazzie, Killed in the Line of Duty". Indian Country Today. 21 March 2015.
^ "Official Web Site". NMMI. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

Law enforcement agencies of the United States by state

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