The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is the police department of the City of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, US. With 1,717 officers and 564 civilian staff as of 2011, covering an area of 438 square miles (1,130 km2) with a population of more than 713,455, it is the largest police department between Washington D.C. and Atlanta GA. The CMPD is unique, in t0hat it was formed in 1993 with the merger of the former Charlotte city police department and the Mecklenburg County rural police department. Mecklenburg and neighboring Gaston County were the 2 counties out of the State's 100 counties to have county police in addition to the sheriff's offices. County police perform law enforcement tasks in the county with police powers anywhere in the county just like the sheriff, but the sheriff primarily handled the courts and jails. The NC General Assembly approved legislation combining the 2 agencies. Though they are by statute "county police" in that they have jurisdiction anywhere in Mecklenburg County, the unique status of the situation made them "metro" police, in that the City of Charlotte has no municipal police department.
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