California Petition to Obtain Report of Law Enforcement Agency - Juvenile

All the most powerful federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S., among them the FBI, the CIA and the U.S. Marshals are controlled by the executive branch.

Local law enforcement agencies include police and sheriff departments. State agencies include the state or highway patrol.There are agencies whose mission is to provide a law enforcement function and there are also agencies who have a law enforcement department or component within a larger agency.

Los Angeles Police Department is one of California's largest police departments, with approximately 9,000 sworn officers and 3,000 civilian employees. The city has a population of 4 million people that means for every 433 residents, there is only one officer, which is comparatively lower than the other departments.

Because of its geography, it is impossible to use roads to get from one local/municipal jurisdiction to another. As a consequence, Hawaii is the only state that does not have a specifically named state police/highway patrol force.

There are basically three types of law enforcement agencies, local, state, and federal. Local law enforcement agencies include police and sheriff departments. State agencies include the state or highway patrol. Federal agencies include the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service.

Established in 1845, The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is one of the most well-known law enforcement agencies in the world. As the largest in the US, it currently has about 36,008 full-time active officers and 19,000 civilian employees.

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 509 law enforcement agencies employing 79,431 sworn peace officers, about 217 for each 100,000 residents.