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Table 78

MASSACHUSETTS

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees

by City, 2012

City Population Total law
enforcement
employees		 Total
officers		 Total
civilians
Abington 16,215 26 23 3
Acton 22,349 45 35 10
Acushnet 10,408 18 16 2
Adams 8,508 18 15 3
Agawam 28,708 58 49 9
Amesbury 16,557 37 31 6
Amherst 38,112 49 47 2
Andover 33,753 69 53 16
Aquinnah 319 4 4 0
Arlington 43,675 78 61 17
Ashburnham 6,155 15 10 5
Ashfield 1,757 1 1 0
Ashland 16,916 32 26 6
Athol 11,727 23 18 5
Attleboro 44,033 87 74 13
Auburn 16,389 20 15 5
Avon 4,427 19 15 4
Ayer 7,568 22 17 5
Barnstable 45,570 130 115 15
Barre 5,464 8 7 1
Becket 1,784 2 2 0
Bedford 13,575 37 28 9
Belchertown 14,751 23 18 5
Bellingham 16,593 33 26 7
Belmont 25,209 58 42 16
Berlin 2,903 11 7 4
Bernardston 2,154 3 3 0
Beverly 40,150 63 59 4
Billerica 41,016 73 61 12
Blackstone 9,138 20 17 3
Bolton 4,959 14 9 5
Boston 630,648 2,700 2,130 570
Bourne 19,921 40 33 7
Boxborough 5,094 16 11 5
Boxford 8,099 13 13 0
Boylston 4,410 12 9 3
Braintree 36,310 84 68 16
Brewster 9,902 27 22 5
Bridgewater 26,923 32 30 2
Brockton 95,156 190 170 20
Brookfield 3,431 4 4 0
Brookline 59,658 183 130 53
Buckland 1,925 2 2 0
Burlington 24,975 72 64 8
Cambridge 106,981 308 276 32
Canton 21,903 43 42 1
Carlisle 4,947 15 10 5
Carver 11,676 20 15 5
Charlton 13,142 22 18 4
Chatham 6,176 22 18 4
Chelmsford 34,460 65 51 14
Chelsea 35,966 101 95 6
Chester 1,350 1 1 0
Chicopee 55,825 132 128 4
Clinton 13,774 32 27 5
Cohasset 7,663 17 16 1
Concord 17,995 44 35 9
Dalton 6,774 11 10 1
Danvers 26,934 56 44 12
Dartmouth 34,368 77 63 14
Dedham 25,116 57 55 2
Deerfield 5,186 9 8 1
Dennis 14,325 51 41 10
Douglas 8,576 20 15 5
Dover 5,677 16 16 0
Dracut 30,032 43 37 6
Dudley 11,528 15 12 3
Dunstable 3,242 8 7 1
Duxbury 15,276 35 28 7
East Bridgewater 13,989 24 20 4
East Brookfield 2,209 3 3 0
Eastham 4,997 20 16 4
Easthampton 16,166 29 26 3
East Longmeadow 15,871 25 24 1
Easton 23,342 42 31 11
Edgartown 4,161 19 18 1
Egremont 1,229 4 4 0
Erving 1,822 5 5 0
Essex 3,562 12 8 4
Everett 42,476 104 94 10
Fairhaven 16,033 33 27 6
Fall River 89,753 263 218 45
Falmouth 31,794 59 53 6
Fitchburg 40,809 76 69 7
Foxborough 17,134 40 32 8
Framingham 69,605 133 121 12
Franklin 32,134 51 43 8
Freetown 8,960 18 18 0
Gardner 20,474 43 31 12
Georgetown 8,321 16 11 5
Gill 1,518 2 2 0
Gloucester 29,272 64 59 5
Goshen 1,062 1 1 0
Grafton 17,986 22 18 4
Granby 6,282 14 11 3
Granville 1,581 1 1 0
Great Barrington 7,128 18 17 1
Greenfield 17,667 32 29 3
Groton 10,851 23 18 5
Groveland 6,567 13 9 4
Hadley 5,288 15 11 4
Halifax 7,627 12 11 1
Hamilton 7,896 13 13 0
Hampden 5,188 14 10 4
Hanover 14,078 30 28 2
Hardwick 3,027 3 3 0
Harwich 12,345 37 34 3
Hatfield 3,302 3 3 0
Haverhill 61,897 97 85 12
Hingham 22,475 53 50 3
Hinsdale 2,038 1 1 0
Holbrook 10,963 21 20 1
Holden 17,562 27 23 4
Holland 2,504 2 2 0
Holliston 13,811 25 22 3
Holyoke 40,260 137 118 19
Hopedale 5,985 13 12 1
Hopkinton 15,214 25 20 5
Hubbardston 4,436 7 7 0
Hudson 19,435 42 31 11
Hull 10,441 29 26 3
Ipswich 13,397 31 24 7
Kingston 12,809 27 20 7
Lakeville 10,754 19 15 4
Lancaster 8,148 12 11 1
Lanesboro 3,100 7 7 0
Lawrence 77,661 133 117 16
Lee 5,960 11 11 0
Leicester 11,106 23 18 5
Lenox 5,039 10 10 0
Leominster 41,262 68 56 12
Leverett 1,874 2 2 0
Lexington 32,000 63 48 15
Lincoln 6,487 19 13 6
Longmeadow 15,936 35 26 9
Lowell 108,539 295 225 70
Ludlow 21,304 37 34 3
Lunenburg 10,212 14 14 0
Lynn 91,846 197 179 18
Lynnfield 11,791 24 19 5
Malden 60,605 114 103 11
Manchester-by-the-Sea 5,222 16 13 3
Mansfield 23,419 38 35 3
Marblehead 20,142 38 29 9
Marion 4,976 15 15 0
Marlborough 39,241 75 63 12
Marshfield 25,496 44 41 3
Mashpee 14,123 46 35 11
Mattapoisett 6,133 18 18 0
Maynard 10,303 22 21 1
Medfield 12,216 21 17 4
Medford 57,243 94 92 2
Medway 12,956 19 19 0
Melrose 27,506 41 41 0
Merrimac 6,446 9 5 4
Methuen 48,051 101 88 13
Middleboro 23,448 43 39 4
Middleton 9,130 14 13 1
Milford 28,346 54 45 9
Millbury 13,425 20 15 5
Millville 3,228 11 10 1
Milton 27,424 62 50 12
Monson 8,641 15 10 5
Montague 8,540 19 15 4
Monterey 965 2 2 0
Nahant 3,467 13 12 1
Nantucket 10,232 45 33 12
Natick 33,646 67 55 12
Needham 29,342 53 45 8
New Bedford 96,031 296 253 43
New Braintree 1,011 1 1 0
Newbury 6,779 9 9 0
Newburyport 17,708 37 33 4
Newton 86,710 169 137 32
Norfolk 11,390 19 17 2
North Adams 13,753 29 25 4
Northampton 28,755 68 63 5
North Andover 28,825 52 40 12
North Attleboro 29,001 53 40 13
Northborough 14,329 24 17 7
Northbridge 15,901 23 18 5
Northfield 3,069 3 3 0
North Reading 15,182 29 28 1
Norton 19,222 29 28 1
Norwell 10,656 24 21 3
Norwood 29,057 68 57 11
Oak Bluffs 4,631 16 15 1
Orange 7,934 11 10 1
Orleans 5,939 25 20 5
Oxford 13,880 25 21 4
Paxton 4,864 18 11 7
Peabody 52,113 93 82 11
Pelham 1,329 1 1 0
Pembroke 18,094 26 24 2
Pepperell 11,719 17 16 1
Phillipston 1,702 2 2 0
Pittsfield 44,868 108 87 21
Plainville 8,396 20 15 5
Plymouth 57,272 118 100 18
Plympton 2,862 9 8 1
Princeton 3,454 9 6 3
Provincetown 2,966 25 17 8
Quincy 93,736 219 190 29
Randolph 32,624 56 53 3
Raynham 13,518 32 23 9
Reading 25,223 52 39 13
Rehoboth 11,724 27 21 6
Revere 52,926 101 89 12
Rochester 5,308 10 10 0
Rockland 17,739 38 31 7
Rockport 7,068 16 14 2
Rutland 8,073 9 9 0
Salem 42,025 97 86 11
Salisbury 8,422 17 13 4
Sandwich 20,848 35 34 1
Saugus 27,075 67 52 15
Scituate 18,395 35 30 5
Seekonk 13,862 36 34 2
Sharon 17,892 40 30 10
Sheffield 3,265 7 6 1
Sherborn 4,199 15 15 0
Shirley 7,337 14 9 5
Shrewsbury 36,048 53 41 12
Somerset 18,349 38 32 6
Somerville 77,200 138 125 13
Southborough 9,887 19 19 0
Southbridge 16,924 35 33 2
South Hadley 17,642 32 27 5
Southwick 9,594 22 17 5
Spencer 11,832 21 17 4
Springfield 154,518 413 368 45
Sterling 7,904 17 13 4
Stockbridge 1,953 6 6 0
Stoneham 21,852 40 34 6
Stoughton 27,392 56 50 6
Stow 6,717 16 11 5
Sturbridge 9,383 21 17 4
Sudbury 18,002 35 25 10
Sunderland 3,730 6 5 1
Sutton 9,075 20 15 5
Swampscott 14,020 31 31 0
Swansea 16,025 37 31 6
Templeton 8,111 17 11 6
Tewksbury 29,518 71 57 14
Tisbury 4,040 12 11 1
Topsfield 6,188 14 10 4
Townsend 9,099 15 13 2
Truro 2,020 17 12 5
Tyngsboro 11,513 29 23 6
Upton 7,636 17 12 5
Uxbridge 13,623 22 16 6
Wakefield 25,415 44 43 1
Walpole 24,450 44 38 6
Waltham 61,725 170 143 27
Ware 9,942 14 14 0
Wareham 22,136 62 48 14
Warren 5,198 10 7 3
Warwick 790 2 2 0
Watertown 32,535 69 65 4
Wayland 13,248 30 22 8
Webster 16,974 35 31 4
Wellesley 28,402 51 38 13
Wellfleet 2,772 17 12 5
Wenham 4,948 11 10 1
Westborough 18,496 35 29 6
West Boylston 7,759 18 13 5
West Bridgewater 7,016 21 20 1
West Brookfield 3,746 5 5 0
Westfield 41,485 86 82 4
Westford 22,378 52 40 12
Westminster 7,367 18 13 5
West Newbury 4,306 11 7 4
Weston 11,472 30 25 5
Westport 15,688 32 27 5
West Springfield 28,663 85 75 10
West Tisbury 2,803 10 9 1
Westwood 14,852 32 23 9
Weymouth 54,597 105 88 17
Whately 1,514 2 2 0
Whitman 14,699 27 26 1
Wilbraham 14,356 27 26 1
Williamsburg 2,499 2 2 0
Williamstown 7,789 16 12 4
Wilmington 22,758 62 48 14
Winchendon 10,427 19 14 5
Winchester 21,786 46 38 8
Winthrop 17,895 36 31 5
Woburn 38,863 80 75 5
Worcester 183,247 462 415 47
Wrentham 11,125 21 19 2
Yarmouth 23,991 73 59 14

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