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Presents findings on the basic training programs of more than 600 state and local law enforcement training academies, including data on program content, recruits, and instructors. Federal training academies and academies that provide only in-service training, corrections and detention training, or other special types of training were not included in these data. These findings are based on the 2013 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA).

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State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2013 Presents findings on the basic training programs of more than 600 state and local law enforcement training academies, including data on program content, recruits, and instructors.
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Part of the State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies Series

National Sources of Law Enforcement Employment Data This report describes and compares three law enforcement employment data sources: 1) the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, 2) the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll (ASPEP), and 3) the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA).
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Hiring and Retention of State and Local Law Enforcement Officers, 2008 - Statistical Tables Presents the results of a special survey administered to a nationally representative sample of agencies that participated in the 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
  Full report (PDF 995K) | ASCII file (36K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 89K)
Part of the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies Series

Contacts between Police and the Public, 2008 Presents findings from a nationally representative survey of nearly 60,000 residents age 16 or older about their contact with police during the 12 months prior to the interview.
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Part of the Contacts between Police and the Public Series

Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2008 Presents the results of the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, which is conducted every four years and covers approximately 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide.
  Full report (PDF 836K) | ASCII file (36K) | Spreadsheets (Zip format 23K)
Part of the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies Series

Operating expenditures of state and local law enforcement training academies, by type of operating agency, FY 2005 Table 9 from State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2006
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Types of instructors in state and local law enforcement training academies, 2006 Table 3 from State and Local Enforcement Training Academies, 2006
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State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2006 "State and local law enforcement academies trained 57,000 new recruits during 2005"
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Part of the State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies Series

State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2006 Presents findings from the 2006 BJS Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies, updating the results of the initial census conducted in 2002.
  Press Release | Full report (PDF 163K) | ASCII file (31K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 27K)
Part of the State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies Series

State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2002 Presents data on personnel, facilities and resources, trainees, and training curricula of law enforcement academies in the United States.
  Full report (PDF 50K) | ASCII file (638K) | Spreadsheet (Zip format 33K) | Codebooks and Datasets
Part of the State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies Series