Table 78

MASSACHUSETTS
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by State by City, 2007
City Population Total law enforcement employees Total officers Total civilians
Abington 16,673 30 28 2
Acton 20,619 43 33 10
Acushnet 10,575 21 19 2
Adams 8,316 20 16 4
Agawam 28,573 54 46 8
Amesbury 16,551 37 31 6
Amherst 33,913 53 50 3
Andover 33,615 71 52 19
Aquinnah 356 4 4 0
Arlington 40,902 77 61 16
Ashburnham 6,065 13 9 4
Ashby 2,957 6 6 0
Ashfield 1,826 2 2 0
Ashland 15,818 31 27 4
Athol 11,721 23 18 5
Attleboro 43,474 89 76 13
Auburn 16,445 45 35 10
Avon 4,310 19 15 4
Ayer 7,306 22 17 5
Barnstable 47,342 133 114 19
Barre 5,467 13 9 4
Becket 1,804 2 2 0
Bedford 12,862 36 28 8
Belchertown 14,268 22 17 5
Bellingham 15,965 38 30 8
Belmont 23,184 60 46 14
Berkley 6,494 7 6 1
Berlin 2,771 11 7 4
Beverly 39,493 72 68 4
Billerica 41,568 85 64 21
Blackstone 9,067 19 16 3
Bolton 4,517 14 9 5
Boston 591,855 2,810 2,170 640
Bourne 19,308 42 36 6
Boxborough 5,106 15 10 5
Boxford 8,155 14 13 1
Boylston 4,295 13 10 3
Braintree 34,147 84 76 8
Brewster 10,158 18 15 3
Bridgewater 25,767 36 35 1
Brockton 94,180 220 192 28
Brookfield 3,075 3 3 0
Brookline 54,976 148 125 23
Buckland 2,002 2 2 0
Burlington 24,978 71 62 9
Cambridge 101,161 294 262 32
Canton 21,890 43 42 1
Carlisle 4,870 10 10 0
Carver 11,639 21 17 4
Charlton 12,765 23 19 4
Chatham 6,811 27 21 6
Chelmsford 33,740 69 53 16
Chelsea 32,439 88 82 6
Chicopee 54,414 129 125 4
Clinton 14,247 34 29 5
Cohasset 7,213 24 18 6
Concord 16,766 43 35 8
Dalton 6,627 12 11 1
Danvers 25,979 60 47 13
Dartmouth 31,465 77 63 14
Dedham 23,653 70 60 10
Deerfield 4,763 8 7 1
Dennis 15,666 50 41 9
Douglas 8,093 20 15 5
Dover 5,650 16 16 0
Dracut 29,444 42 37 5
Dudley 10,951 16 12 4
Dunstable 3,278 7 7 0
Duxbury 14,659 35 27 8
East Bridgewater 14,077 26 23 3
East Brookfield 2,095 4 4 0
Eastham 5,519 21 15 6
Easthampton 16,082 32 27 5
East Longmeadow 15,061 24 23 1
Easton 23,142 34 30 4
Edgartown 3,939 16 15 1
Egremont 1,364 3 3 0
Erving 1,574 4 4 0
Essex 3,328 12 8 4
Everett 36,826 107 97 10
Fairhaven 16,268 38 32 6
Fall River 91,413 300 244 56
Falmouth 33,722 71 63 8
Fitchburg 40,180 99 90 9
Foxborough 16,276 35 29 6
Framingham 64,482 123 115 8
Franklin 31,478 57 46 11
Freetown 9,042 18 18 0
Gardner 20,813 41 31 10
Georgetown 8,210 13 11 2
Gill 1,387 3 3 0
Gloucester 30,597 64 61 3
Goshen 965 3 2 1
Grafton 17,750 23 18 5
Granby 6,381 13 11 2
Granville 1,689 1 1 0
Great Barrington 7,423 14 13 1
Greenfield 17,648 50 35 15
Groton 10,737 22 17 5
Groveland 6,863 13 8 5
Hadley 4,817 15 11 4
Halifax 7,834 16 11 5
Hamilton 8,262 20 15 5
Hampden 5,349 14 9 5
Hanover 14,266 31 28 3
Hanson 10,054 25 21 4
Hardwick 2,670 3 3 0
Harvard 6,062 14 9 5
Harwich 12,573 40 34 6
Hatfield 3,266 1 1 0
Haverhill 60,308 100 91 9
Hingham 22,059 53 44 9
Hinsdale 1,782 1 1 0
Holbrook 10,724 23 22 1
Holden 16,816 26 23 3
Holliston 13,903 25 24 1
Holyoke 39,769 145 124 21
Hopedale 6,277 16 12 4
Hopkinton 14,294 26 21 5
Hubbardston 4,494 10 6 4
Hudson 19,595 37 31 6
Hull 11,261 33 24 9
Ipswich 13,326 25 24 1
Kingston 12,581 32 24 8
Lakeville 10,770 21 16 5
Lancaster 7,043 12 11 1
Lanesboro 2,914 6 6 0
Lawrence 70,462 179 151 28
Lee 5,842 12 11 1
Leicester 11,077 23 18 5
Lenox 5,169 10 10 0
Leominster 41,602 90 72 18
Leverett 1,790 2 2 0
Lexington 30,220 61 47 14
Lincoln 7,929 19 13 6
Littleton 8,713 19 14 5
Longmeadow 15,465 31 26 5
Lowell 102,918 308 229 79
Ludlow 22,066 39 34 5
Lunenburg 10,105 13 13 0
Lynn 87,817 203 183 20
Lynnfield 11,429 24 19 5
Malden 55,538 110 103 7
Manchester-by-the-Sea 5,301 22 16 6
Mansfield 23,175 48 36 12
Marblehead 20,194 38 29 9
Marion 5,313 14 14 0
Marlborough 38,227 74 63 11
Marshfield 24,915 46 43 3
Mattapoisett 6,502 18 18 0
Maynard 10,150 23 21 2
Medfield 12,299 23 18 5
Medford 55,706 111 107 4
Medway 12,867 20 19 1
Melrose 26,549 44 43 1
Mendon 5,837 17 13 4
Merrimac 6,420 11 7 4
Methuen 44,333 105 88 17
Middleboro 21,503 45 41 4
Middleton 9,562 14 13 1
Milford 27,635 55 45 10
Millbury 13,711 24 20 4
Millis 7,977 18 14 4
Millville 2,988 8 5 3
Milton 25,888 61 46 15
Monson 8,856 16 12 4
Montague 8,359 21 15 6
Nahant 3,544 13 12 1
Nantucket 10,341 39 34 5
Natick 31,854 65 53 12
Needham 28,343 55 45 10
New Bedford 92,373 342 284 58
New Braintree 1,130 1 1 0
Newbury 6,992 16 13 3
Newburyport 17,317 33 30 3
Newton 82,731 195 152 43
Norfolk 10,596 19 17 2
North Adams 13,738 30 25 5
Northampton 28,550 63 54 9
North Andover 27,271 51 39 12
North Attleboro 28,095 62 49 13
Northborough 14,783 26 20 6
Northbridge 14,596 22 17 5
North Brookfield 4,847 6 6 0
Northfield 3,326 4 3 1
North Reading 13,970 31 30 1
Norton 19,423 29 28 1
Norwell 10,466 27 18 9
Norwood 28,336 69 58 11
Oak Bluffs 3,768 17 15 2
Oakham 1,946 3 3 0
Orange 7,762 13 12 1
Orleans 6,412 28 22 6
Oxford 13,760 25 20 5
Palmer 12,991 26 20 6
Paxton 4,591 12 8 4
Peabody 52,194 111 96 15
Pembroke 18,932 30 28 2
Pepperell 11,454 19 18 1
Petersham 1,303 2 2 0
Phillipston 1,802 2 2 0
Pittsfield 43,194 104 84 20
Plainville 8,162 20 15 5
Plymouth 56,023 119 101 18
Plympton 2,787 7 7 0
Princeton 3,547 8 5 3
Provincetown 3,411 25 18 7
Quincy 91,382 226 198 28
Randolph 30,233 48 48 0
Raynham 13,975 35 26 9
Reading 23,004 51 39 12
Rehoboth 11,551 27 22 5
Revere 46,658 107 97 10
Rochester 5,530 10 10 0
Rockland 17,914 40 33 7
Rockport 7,677 18 17 1
Rowley 5,927 16 14 2
Russell 1,750 1 1 0
Rutland 7,800 9 8 1
Salem 41,507 89 84 5
Salisbury 8,506 20 14 6
Sandwich 20,584 35 34 1
Saugus 27,214 74 54 20
Scituate 18,116 35 30 5
Seekonk 13,681 34 32 2
Sharon 17,100 31 27 4
Sheffield 3,372 6 6 0
Shelburne 2,045 2 2 0
Sherborn 4,217 14 14 0
Shirley 7,661 16 12 4
Shrewsbury 33,485 59 45 14
Somerset 18,473 38 32 6
Somerville 74,156 149 127 22
Southampton 6,010 8 8 0
Southborough 9,674 21 16 5
Southbridge 17,109 39 36 3
South Hadley 17,011 34 29 5
Southwick 9,719 20 16 4
Spencer 12,153 21 17 4
Springfield 151,074 546 450 96
Sterling 7,927 18 13 5
Stockbridge 2,256 6 6 0
Stoneham 21,374 41 34 7
Stoughton 26,814 59 52 7
Stow 6,263 11 11 0
Sturbridge 9,141 23 18 5
Sudbury 17,061 35 29 6
Sunderland 3,778 5 5 0
Sutton 9,154 20 15 5
Swampscott 14,097 35 33 2
Swansea 16,271 37 31 6
Taunton 56,091 120 115 5
Templeton 7,812 13 9 4
Tewksbury 29,450 60 56 4
Tisbury 3,806 12 11 1
Topsfield 6,128 14 10 4
Townsend 9,343 18 16 2
Truro 2,163 17 12 5
Tyngsboro 11,584 27 21 6
Upton 6,597 18 13 5
Uxbridge 12,818 23 18 5
Wakefield 24,557 44 43 1
Walpole 23,199 44 39 5
Waltham 59,425 183 150 33
Ware 10,031 18 18 0
Wareham 21,472 58 50 8
Warren 5,141 12 7 5
Watertown 32,065 81 68 13
Wayland 12,954 31 22 9
Webster 16,886 32 28 4
Wellesley 26,966 54 39 15
Wellfleet 2,798 17 13 4
Wenham 4,609 11 10 1
Westborough 18,740 34 28 6
West Boylston 7,810 18 13 5
West Bridgewater 6,795 22 21 1
West Brookfield 3,879 6 6 0
Westfield 40,518 91 79 12
Westford 21,624 46 36 10
Westminster 7,494 16 12 4
West Newbury 4,306 12 6 6
Weston 11,665 31 25 6
Westport 15,280 33 29 4
West Springfield 27,854 92 81 11
West Tisbury 2,673 10 9 1
Westwood 13,790 36 28 8
Weymouth 53,553 113 97 16
Whitman 14,540 27 26 1
Wilbraham 14,123 29 28 1
Williamstown 8,159 16 12 4
Wilmington 21,545 48 46 2
Winchendon 10,221 17 12 5
Winchester 21,155 46 38 8
Winthrop 17,056 36 34 2
Woburn 36,996 77 71 6
Worcester 175,825 513 462 51
Wrentham 11,215 17 15 2
Yarmouth 24,304 69 59 10

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