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Newport Police Department

City agency in Newport, Rhode Island. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2003.

ORI
RI0030300
Type
City
County
Newport
State
Rhode Island
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2003-03-01
Location
41.4927, -71.3108

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 24,287.

84Sworn officers
19Civilian staff
4.24Employees per 1,000 people
24,287Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025841924,2874.24
2023761624,5533.75
2022751425,0393.55
2021772425,2404.00
2020831724,2024.13
2019811624,5843.95
2018801824,8633.94
2017882824,8124.68
2016771624,0773.86
2015771623,8873.89
2014791523,9593.92
2013801523,8743.98

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Also policing Newport

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record RI0030300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.