The Phoenix Police Department is the law enforcement agency responsible for the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Today, the Phoenix Police Department comprises more than 3,200 officers and more than 1,100 support personnel, making it the seventh largest police department in the United States. The department protects a population of more than 1.6 million and patrol almost 516 square miles (1,340 km2) of the sixth largest city in the United States.
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