The APD also funds and operates its own police training center in Anchorage. The state facility trains village public safety officers, correctional officers, Alaska State Troopers and local police for communities other than Anchorage. In 1998 this began to change as the Department of Public Safety began to use some of the funds to assist Anchorage Police Department's training program. The Anchorage Police Department also provides prisoner transportation, support for felony prosecution and patrol, summons, subpoena and investigative services. The Anchorage Municipal attorney also provides local prosecution of misdemeanor offenses and operates a civil DWI program.
Anchorage is the only community in Alaska to have such local enforcement.
The State of Alaska's Municipal Capital Matching Grant Program was established to provide a state funding match for local capital projects and divides up funds based on the population of each of the 162 municipalities in the state. The state statutes on rural water and sewer funding actually prohibit the state from asking small communities to pay anything or any share of most water and sewer projects. The Alaska State Housing Authority through statutory home loan programs seriously and unfairly discriminates against residents of Anchorage and other urban communities. Rich people in the bush are being subsidized by average urban Alaskan home owners. Other special state subsidies for rural residents also exist.