List of law enforcement agencies in New Mexico

This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of New Mexico.

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 146 law enforcement agencies employing 5,010 sworn police officers, about 252 for each 100,000 residents. This is almost exactly the national average of policemen to residents in the United States.[1]

State agencies

• New Mexico Department of Public Safety
  • New Mexico State Police
• New Mexico Mounted Patrol
• New Mexico Attorney General's Office
• New Mexico Board of Pharmacy
• New Mexico Corrections Department
• New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
• New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department
  • New Mexico State Forestry Division
    • Special Agents
  • New Mexico State Parks Division
    • Park Rangers
• New Mexico Livestock Inspector Board
• New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department
  • Office of the Inspector General
  • Tax Fraud Investigations Division

County agencies

Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department [2] Catron County Sheriff's Department Chaves County Sheriff’s Office Cibola County Sheriff's Office Colfax County Sheriff's Office Curry County Sheriff's Office De Baca County Sheriff's Office Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office Eddy County Sheriff's Office Grant County Sheriff's Department Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office

Harding County Sheriff's Department Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department Lea County Sheriff's Department Lincoln County Sheriff's Office Los Alamos County Police Department Luna County Sheriff's Office McKinley County Sheriff's Office Mora County Sheriff's Office Otero County Sheriff's Department Quay County Sheriff's Office Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Office [3]

Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office San Juan County Sheriff's Office San Miguel County Sheriff's Office Sandoval County Sheriff's Office Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office Sierra County Sheriff's Office Socorro County Sheriff's Department Taos County Sheriff's Department[4] Torrance County Sheriff's Department Union County Sheriff's Office Valencia County Sheriff's Office

City agencies

Alamogordo Police Department Albuquerque Police Department[5] Angel Fire Police Department[6] Anthony Police Department https://www.cityofanthonynm.com/departments/police-department/ Artesia Police Department Aztec Police Department Bayard Police Department Belen Police Department Bernalillo Police Department Bloomfield Police Department Bosque Farms Police Department Buena Vista Police Department Capitan Police Department Carlsbad Police Department Carrizozo Police Department Cerrillos Police Department Chama Police Department Clayton Police Department [7] Cloudcroft Police Department Clovis Police Department Corrales Police Department Cuba Police Department

Deming Police Department Edgewood Police Department Espanola Police Department [8] Estancia Police Department Farmington Police Department Gallup Police Department Grants Police Department [9] Hatch Police Department Hobbs Police Department Hurley Police Department Jemez Springs Police Department[10] Lamy Police Department Las Cruces Police Department Las Vegas, NM Police Department Lordsburg Police Department Los Alamos Police Department Los Lunas Police Department Loving Police Department Lovington Police Department Magdalena Police Department Mesilla Marshal's Department

Mora Police Department Moriarty Police Department Mountainair Police Department Placitas Police Department Portales Police Department Raton Police Department Red River Marshal's Office Rio Rancho Police Department Roswell Police Department Ruidoso Police Department San Ysidro Marshal's Office Sandia Park Police Department Santa Fe Police Department Santa Clara Police Department Silver City Police Department Socorro Police Department Sunland Park Police Department Taos Police Department Tijeras Police Department Truth Or Consequences Police Department Tucumcari Police Department Vaughn Police Department

Tribal agencies

Acoma Pueblo Police Department Cochiti Pueblo Police Department Isleta Pueblo Police Department Jemez Pueblo Police Department Jicarilla Apache Police Department Laguna Pueblo Police Department Mescalero Apache Police Department Nambe Pueblo Police Department Navajo Nation Department of Law Enforcement [11] Chinle Police District Crownpoint Police District Dilcon Police District Kayenta Police District Shiprock Police District[12] Tuba City Police District

Picuris Pueblo Police Department Pojoaque Pueblo Police Department Ramah Navaho Chapter Police Department Sandia Tribal Police San Felipe Pueblo Police Department San Ildefonso Pueblo Police Department San Juan Pueblo Police Department Santa Ana Pueblo Police Department Santa Clara Pueblo Police Department Santo Domingo Pueblo Police Department Taos Pueblo Police Department Tesuque Pueblo Police Department Zia Pueblo Police Department Zuni Pueblo Police Department

College and university agencies

Eastern New Mexico University Police Department New Mexico Highlands University Police Department New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Police Department New Mexico Military Institute Police Department [13]

New Mexico State University Police Department University of New Mexico Police Department Western New Mexico University Police Department

Other agencies

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Police Bureau of Indian Affairs Police

Albuquerque Public Schools Police New Mexico Mountain Police (Defunct)[14]

Office of the United States Marshal for the District of New Mexico

References

1. 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, by Brian A Reaves, US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2011
2. Goldstein, Richard (22 November 2015). "Bob Foster, Whose Left Hook Decimated All but the Heavyweights, Dies at 76". New York Times. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
3. Ex-New Mexico lawman gets 10 years in bizarre road rage case; by Russell Contreras, 21 January 21015, The Associated Press
4. Stiny, Andy (17 March 2015). "State cop fired over shooting hired as deputy in Taos". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
5. Albuquerque Police Continue to Thwart Transparency by Refusing to Release Footage from Shooting Death 49 By Carlos Miller, 3 September 2014, Photography is Not a Crime
6. "Police Department". Angel Fire. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
7. "Clayton police officer arrested, fired". Connect Amarillo. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
8. Last, T.S. (21 February 2015). "Santa Fe, Espanola officers charged by DA; both have worked for current SF chief". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
9. "Grants Police Department". Grants Police Department. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
10. Former Jemez Springs chief indicted on rape charges; by Nicole Perez, Albuquerque Journal, 7 August 2014
11. "Flags at Half-Staff for Navajo Police Officer Alex Yazzie, Killed in the Line of Duty". Indian Country Today. 21 March 2015.
12. "Flags at Half-Staff for Navajo Police Officer Alex Yazzie, Killed in the Line of Duty". Indian Country Today. 21 March 2015.
13. "Official Web Site". NMMI. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
14. "The past 100 years, April 5, 2020". Santa Fe New Mexican. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.