page_title: Anne Arundel County, Maryland
section_title: Law enforcement
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Arundel County, Maryland / Politics and government / Law enforcement
caption_attribution_description: English: Annapolis Police car responding
context_page_description: Anne Arundel County, also notated as AA or A.A. County, is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 537,656, a population increase of just under 10% since 2000. Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state. The county is named for Lady Anne Arundell, a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England, and the wife of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, founder and first Lord Proprietor of the colony Province of Maryland.
  Anne Arundel County is included in the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington combined statistical area.
context_section_description: There are several major law enforcement agencies servicing Anne Arundel County:
  Anne Arundel County Police Department is headed by Chief Timothy Altomare.
  Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office is headed by Sheriff Jim Fredericks.
  Annapolis Police Department
  Maryland State Police
  Maryland Natural Resources Police
  Maryland Transportation Authority Police
  Maryland Transit Administration Police
  Anne Arundel County Department of Detention Facilities
caption: The Annapolis Police Department covers eastern Anne Arundel County
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