page_title: List of law enforcement agencies in California
section_title: Special District agencies
hierarchical_section_title: List of law enforcement agencies in California / Special District agencies
caption_attribution_description: English: Rancho Bernardo, CA, October 30, 2007 -- FEMA Administrator, Chief Paulison talks with San Diego Police in Rancho Bernardo neighborhood following the recent Southern California wildfires. Andrea Booher/FEMA
context_page_description: This is a list of law enforcement agencies in California, including local, county, and statewide agencies. Historic agencies are included.
  According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 509 law enforcement agencies employing 79,431 sworn peace officers, about 217 for each 100,000 residents.
context_section_description: Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department
  Bear Valley Police Department (Bear Valley Community Services District)
  Bethel Island Municipal Improvement District (BIMID)
  Broadmoor Police Protection District
  Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Police
  Compton Municipal Law Enforcement
  Capistrano Bay Police Department (Capistrano Bay Community Services District)
  Central Marin Police Authority
  California Exposition & State Fair Police (Cal Expo Police)
  East Bay Regional Park District Police Department
  Exposition Park Department of Public Safety
  Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District
  Kern County Airport Police
  Lake Shastina Police Department (Lake Shastina C.S.D.)
  Long Beach Harbor Patrol
  Long Beach Park Rangers
  Los Angeles World Airports Police Division
  Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Park Ranger Division
  Port of Los Angeles Police Division
  Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Law Enforcement Division
  Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Ranger Division 
  Montebello Park Rangers
  Monterey County Park Rangers
  Monterey Peninsula Airport Police
  Metropolitan Transit System Police Department 
  Napa Valley Railroad Police Department
  Port of Stockton Police
  Sacramento Regional Transit Police
  San Diego Harbor Police (San Diego Unified Port District)
  San Diego Humane Society and SPCA Law Enforcement / Investigations Division
  San Francisco Park Patrol
  Santa Ana Park Rangers
  Santa Cruz Harbor Patrol
  Stallion Springs Police 
  Town of Discovery Bay Community Services District (CSD)
caption: San Diego Police officers confer during the October 2007 California wildfires.
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