King Cove Police Department. Click on the picture to learn more.

Law enforcement is the only justice service in Alaska delivered at least in part through local agencies. However, municipal and borough police departments exist only in those communities with the economic resources to support them. As of 2004, Alaska had 46 municipal and borough-wide police departments. In predominately Native bush Alaska, law enforcement services are provide chiefly by the Alaska Department of Public Safety (see Alaska state law enforcement), Village Public Safety Officers (VSPOs) under Alaska State Trooper oversight (see Alaska VPSO Program), and (for the Bristol Bay and North Slope Boroughs), borough police departments.

See also:
Law enforcement > Alaska state law enforcement

Law enforcement > Alaska VPSO Program

Law enforcement > Law enforcement training and certification in Alaska

Alaska Natives > Alaska Natives & law enforcement

Local, city, and borough police departments
See also Alaska VPSO Program for local law enforcement provided by Village Public Safety Officers (VPSOs). Sources: Journal of the Alaska Peace Officers and Association and Associates, 2005; Alaska Police Standards Council website.

• Adak Police Department
• Anchorage Police Department. The largest police agency in Alaska, with over 500 employees including nearly 400 sworn personnel serving over 260,000 residents.
• Angoon Public Safety Department
• Bethel Police Department
• Bristol Bay Borough Police Department. Borough-wide police department serving a population of about 1,300, of whom 33 percent are Native, in an area of 1,200 square miles; based in King Salmon.
• Cordova Department of Public Safety
• Craig Police Department
• Dillingham Department of Public Safety
• Fairbanks Police Department
• Fort Yukon Police Department
• Galena Police Department
• Haines Borough Police Department
• Homer Police Department
• Hoonah Police Department [USAcops site]
• Hooper Bay Police Department [USAcops site]
• Houston Police Department
• Juneau Police Department
• Kake Police Department [USAcops site]
• Kenai Police Department
• Ketchikan Police Department
• King Cove Police Department [USAcops site]
• Klawock Police Department
• Kodiak Police Department
• Kotzebue Police Department
• Metlakatla Police Department (Annette Islands Reserve)
• Nenana Department of Public Safety [Firehouse.com site]
• Nome Police Department
• North Pole Police Department
• North Slope Borough Police Department: The second largest municipal law enforcement agency in Alaska (after Anchorage), providing law enforcement services to the predominately Inupiat Eskimo communities of Barrow (the borough seat), Kaktovik, Nuiqsut, Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Wainwright, Point Lay, Point Hope and the oil industrial complex at Prudhoe Bay. NSBPD serves a population of about 12,600 over an area of 88,281 square miles, a region larger than all but ten of the fifty states of the U.S.
• Palmer Police Department
• Petersburg Police Department
• Saint Marys Police Department
• Saint Paul Department of Public Safety
• Sand Point Police Department [USAcops site]
• Seldovia Police Department
• Seward Police Department
• Sitka Police Department
• Skagway Police Department
• Soldotna Police Department
• Tanana Department of Public Safety
• Togiak Police Department
• Unalakleet Department of Public Safety
• Unalaska Department of Public Safety
• Valdez Police Department
• Wasilla Police Department
• Whittier Department of Public Safety
• Wrangell Police Department
• Yakutat Police Department

University police departments

• University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) University Police
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Police Department

Airport safety departments

• Anchorage International Airport Police and Fire Department
• Fairbanks International Airport Police & Fire Department
• Ketchikan Airport Safety

Justice Center articles & reports
(in reverse chronological order)

• Myrstol, Brad A. and Langworthy, Robert H. (2005). Police Alcohol-Related Services Study (PASS), Phase II: A Description of the Beliefs, Perceptions and Attitudes of Anchorage Police Department Employees. Report prepared for the Anchorage Police Department. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.
• Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. (Winter 2005). "COPS Funds in Alaska." Alaska Justice Forum 21(4): 2-3.
• Myrstol, Brad A. (Spring 2004). "Police Patrol and Public Alcohol Use in Anchorage." Alaska Justice Forum 21(1): 1, 9-12.
• The Police Alcohol-Related Services Study (PASS): A Study of the Intersection of Public Alcohol Use and Routine Police Patrol by Brad A. Myrstol and Robert H. Langworthy. Preliminary report prepared for the Anchorage Police Department. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 2004.
• Myrstol, Brad A.; Schafer, N. E.; and Giblin, Matthew J. (2003). Drug and Alcohol-Related Workload of Anchorage Patrol Officers: Results From Two Patrol Officer Surveys. Anchorage, AK: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage.
• "Anchorage Community Indicators". Alaska Justice Forum 20(3), Fall 2003. Includes data about residents' satisfaction with police performance in Anchorage.
• "A Further Perspective on Satisfaction with Policing" by Matthew Giblin. Alaska Justice Forum 20(3), Fall 2003. Discusses satisfaction with police performance in Anchorage.
• "Anchorage Community Survey: Community Satisfaction with Police Performance" [Acrobat .pdf format]. Anchorage Community Indicators, Series 1, No. 5, September 2003.
• "COPS Funds in Alaska." Alaska Justice Forum 19(2), Summer 2002.
• "Community Policing: Perspectives from the Field" by John Riley. Alaska Justice Forum 14(2), Summer 1997. Regarding community policing in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage.
• "Mountain View: The Context for Community Policing" by Antonia Moras. Alaska Justice Forum 14(2), Summer 1997. Regarding community policing in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage.
• "Public Safety: Shared Responsibility". Alaska Justice Forum 13(1), Spring 1996.
• "Village Alaska: Community Characteristics and Public Safety". Alaska Justice Forum 12(4), Winter 1996.
• "Public Safety and Quality of Life: Alaska Perceptions". Alaska Justice Forum 12(3), Fall 1995.
• "Community Problems in Alaska: Public Perceptions". Alaska Justice Forum 12(2), Summer 1995.
• Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 (CACSA) (JC 9207). Robert H. Langworthy. University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska Southeast. Annual.
• "Implementation of Police Domestic Violence Policy" by Carrie D. Longoria. Alaska Justice Forum 11(4), Winter 1995.
• North Slope Department of Public Safety Community Survey. Report prepared for the North Slope Borough Department of Public Safety. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Justice Center, March 1994.

Justice Center projects

• Police Alcohol-Related Services Study (PASS) (JC 0417). Robert H. Langworthy, Brad A. Myrstol. Anchorage Police Department. 2003-2004.
• Drug-Related Crime and the Workload of Anchorage Police Officers: An Examination of Officer Perceptions (JC 0210). N.E. Schafer, Matthew Giblin, Brad A. Myrstol. Anchorage Police Department. 2002.
• Analysis of Citizen Opinions Concerning the North Slope Borough Department of Public Safety (NSBDPS) (JC 9406). John E. Angell. North Slope Department of Public Safety. 1993.
• Patterns of Adjudication for DWI Arrestees (JC 9818). Robert H. Langworthy. Anchorage Safe Communities. 1998.
• Spatial Concordance of DWI Arrests and Alcohol-Related Traffic Accidents (JC 0014). Robert H. Langworthy. Anchorage Safe Communities. 1999-2000.
• Togiak Community Survey (JC 9710, 9918). Allan R. Barnes. Togiak Police Department. 1997, 1999.

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