Welcome to our new Police Department Staffing page. We know you have asked, "who" is the Redwood City Police Department? How many officers do we have? How do our staffing levels compare to other Police Departments?
We want to answer your questions and hope the information on this page is helpful.
Since 2003 we’ve had an average of 95 budgeted officers, in 2020 we had 97.
In the past thirty years we’ve had an average of 89 officers, in 2019 we had 84 (this refers to active officers as recorded in a single-day count).
In 1991 we had 11 officers per every 10,000 residents; in 2019 we had 10.
At 10 officers per 10,000 residents, Redwood City has the same number of officers per 10,000 residents as San Mateo and has fewer than cities like Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View.
Redwood City Police Department Staffing (Click to Expand)
RCPD Staffing Levels 1991 - 2019
Redwood City Police Staffing (1991 - 2019)
Click through tabs to view all interactive visuals, please use filters and hover over or tap content for more data.
Notes on the data:
Officer count data comes from the Law Enforcement Personnel dataset from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) via their open data portal (https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/). "The Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Justice Statistics Center (CJSC) collects information on the number of funded and not-funded, full-time sworn and non-sworn, male and female law enforcement personnel (LEP) employed by law enforcement agencies (LEA). The CJSC collects the Law Enforcement Personnel data through a one-day survey taken on October 31st of each reporting year."
In these dashboards "civilian officers" refers to full-time, non-jail, non-sworn officers, and "sworn officers" refers to full-time, non-jail, sworn officers. "Civilian officers" are unarmed and have no powers of arrest. They serve a non-confrontational, supportive position. Current RCPD civilian officers work involves parking enforcement, abandoned vehicle abatement, traffic control, subpoena service, and conducting routine, non-violent criminal investigations.
Officer counts are shown in the "RCPD Staffing Levels 1991 - 2019", and Census population estimates are used to normalize the officer counts in "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department". The normalized count is shown as number of officers per 10,000 residents, and is generated using Census data for each year reaching back to 1991. Census population estimate data sources are: 1990 - 2000, 2000 - 2010, 2010 - 2019
Select cities have been removed from "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department" because they have an unusually high officer to population ratio that skews the scale for the other cities. These cities are: Colma, Irwindale, Sand City, and Vernon. These cities are included in the Sworn v Civilian tab.
Any city that is missing population data or officer count data is excluded from "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department" because both numbers are needed for the ratio. Any city that is missing officer count data is excluded from all three dashboards.
"Budgeted Sworn" comes from the Redwood City Police Department (RCPD) and represents the number of sworn officers allocated in the budget. "Sworn Officers" and "Budgeted Sworn" may differ for reasons like unfilled positions, short or long term leave, officers in the academy or training.
Statewide Staffing by Police Department
Redwood City Police Staffing (1991 - 2019)
Click through tabs to view all interactive visuals, please use filters and hover over or tap content for more data.
Notes on the data:
Officer count data comes from the Law Enforcement Personnel dataset from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) via their open data portal (https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/). "The Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Justice Statistics Center (CJSC) collects information on the number of funded and not-funded, full-time sworn and non-sworn, male and female law enforcement personnel (LEP) employed by law enforcement agencies (LEA). The CJSC collects the Law Enforcement Personnel data through a one-day survey taken on October 31st of each reporting year."
In these dashboards "civilian officers" refers to full-time, non-jail, non-sworn officers, and "sworn officers" refers to full-time, non-jail, sworn officers. "Civilian officers" are unarmed and have no powers of arrest. They serve a non-confrontational, supportive position. Current RCPD civilian officers work involves parking enforcement, abandoned vehicle abatement, traffic control, subpoena service, and conducting routine, non-violent criminal investigations.
Officer counts are shown in the "RCPD Staffing Levels 1991 - 2019", and Census population estimates are used to normalize the officer counts in "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department". The normalized count is shown as number of officers per 10,000 residents, and is generated using Census data for each year reaching back to 1991. Census population estimate data sources are: 1990 - 2000, 2000 - 2010, 2010 - 2019
Select cities have been removed from "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department" because they have an unusually high officer to population ratio that skews the scale for the other cities. These cities are: Colma, Irwindale, Sand City, and Vernon. These cities are included in the Sworn v Civilian tab.
Any city that is missing population data or officer count data is excluded from "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department" because both numbers are needed for the ratio. Any city that is missing officer count data is excluded from all three dashboards.
"Budgeted Sworn" comes from the Redwood City Police Department (RCPD) and represents the number of sworn officers allocated in the budget. "Sworn Officers" and "Budgeted Sworn" may differ for reasons like unfilled positions, short or long term leave, officers in the academy or training.
Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department
Redwood City Police Staffing (1991 - 2019)
Click through tabs to view all interactive visuals, please use filters and hover over or tap content for more data.
Notes on the data:
Officer count data comes from the Law Enforcement Personnel dataset from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) via their open data portal (https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/). "The Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Justice Statistics Center (CJSC) collects information on the number of funded and not-funded, full-time sworn and non-sworn, male and female law enforcement personnel (LEP) employed by law enforcement agencies (LEA). The CJSC collects the Law Enforcement Personnel data through a one-day survey taken on October 31st of each reporting year."
In these dashboards "civilian officers" refers to full-time, non-jail, non-sworn officers, and "sworn officers" refers to full-time, non-jail, sworn officers. "Civilian officers" are unarmed and have no powers of arrest. They serve a non-confrontational, supportive position. Current RCPD civilian officers work involves parking enforcement, abandoned vehicle abatement, traffic control, subpoena service, and conducting routine, non-violent criminal investigations.
Officer counts are shown in the "RCPD Staffing Levels 1991 - 2019", and Census population estimates are used to normalize the officer counts in "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department". The normalized count is shown as number of officers per 10,000 residents, and is generated using Census data for each year reaching back to 1991. Census population estimate data sources are: 1990 - 2000, 2000 - 2010, 2010 - 2019
Select cities have been removed from "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department" because they have an unusually high officer to population ratio that skews the scale for the other cities. These cities are: Colma, Irwindale, Sand City, and Vernon. These cities are included in the Sworn v Civilian tab.
Any city that is missing population data or officer count data is excluded from "Statewide Staffing by Police Department" and "Bay Area Map Staffing by Police Department" because both numbers are needed for the ratio. Any city that is missing officer count data is excluded from all three dashboards.
"Budgeted Sworn" comes from the Redwood City Police Department (RCPD) and represents the number of sworn officers allocated in the budget. "Sworn Officers" and "Budgeted Sworn" may differ for reasons like unfilled positions, short or long term leave, officers in the academy or training.
RCPD Staffing Level Report
Click on the image below to download the informational sheet.
