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TOWN OF PLYMOUTH
Plymouth Police Department

 

The Plymouth Police Department Today

Budget:  $7.6 million.

Personnel: 102 full-time officers (all ranks,) 18 full-time civilians, 27 part-time employees.  That's 147 in all.

Breakdown:  One chief, two captains, five lieutenants, 11 sergeants, 83 patrol officers, nine civilian dispatchers, five clerical workers, three animal control officers (one part-time,) and 11 school-crossing guards (all part-time.)

Detective Bureau:  Ten members.  A supervising lieutenant and nine detectives.  Two detectives are assigned exclusively to narcotics.

Deployment:  Two major divisions:   administration and operations.  A captain is in charge of each.  Each working shift has a lieutenant in charge and two sergeants to supervise patrols.  Each shift also has two dispatchers. 

Motor vehicles: 32 in all (24 marked, 8 unmarked.)   Marked vehicles include 18 cruisers, three 4-wheel drive vehicles, a prisoner van and an animal control vehicle.

Population: About 50,000 (Second largest in Plymouth County, behind Brockton.)

Square miles: About 104 (Largest in Plymouth County and largest in Massachusetts.)

Road miles: 432 (Most in Plymouth County.)

 

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Last modified: November 30, 2006