| Metropolitan Police Department – City of St. Louis | |
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 The current Seal of the Metropolitan Police Department | |
 The current patch of the Metropolitan Police Department | |
 SLMPD officer badge, with number omitted. | |
 Flag of City of St. Louis | |
| Common name | Metropolitan Police Department |
| Abbreviation | SLMPD, MPDSL |
| Motto | Officium moris principatum et aequi Omnibus (Latin) Service, Integrity, Leadership, and Fair Treatment to All |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1808[1] |
| Employees |  1809 full-time (2023) [2] |
| Annual budget | US$220,000,000 [FY 2023][3] |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
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| Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Department | |
| Size | 69.99 square miles (181.3 km2) (total) (land) |
| Population | 294,890 (2021)[4] |
| Legal jurisdiction | City of St.Louis |
| Governing body | Public Safety Department - City of St. Louis |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 1915 Olive Downtown West, St. Louis |
| Police Officers | 1,343(2023)[3] |
| Corrections personnel and Civilian members | 462 (2023)[3] |
| Agency executive | |
| Parent agency | Public Safety Department - City of St. Louis |
| Bureaus | 4
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| Patrol Divisions | 3
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 3 Patrol Stations, 6 sub-stations |
| Justice Centers | City Justice Center 200 S.Tucker Blvd. St. Louis, Missouri |
| Marked and Unmarked vehicles | 2000+ |
| Helicopter/Airplanes | 6 Helicopter, 1 Fixed Wing |
| Horses | 4 |
| K-9's | 12 |
| Notables | |
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| Website | |
| Metropolitan Police Department official website | |
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The Metropolitan Police Department – City of St. Louis (also known as the SLMPD or Metro Police) is the primary law enforcement agency for the U.S. city of St. Louis.
According to the Mapping Police Violence dataset, SLMPD has the highest police use of deadly force per capita.[6][7] The SLMPD union has strongly resisted attempts to establish independent oversight of police misconduct.[6] When Kimberly Gardner, the top prosecutor in St. Louis, sought to establish a unit within her office to independently investigate police misconduct, the leader of the SLMPD union said Gardner should be removed "by force or by choice."[6]
- ^ "The St.Louis Police Department: Then and Now". St.Louis Police Museum. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
- ^ Public Safety: Departmental Responsibilities 2019
- ^ a b c "Public Safety: Annual Operating Plan" (PDF). Budget Division. July 3, 2019. p. 3. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ for St Louis, Missouri in 2021
- ^ "Chief: St. Louis police budget gap can be met without layoffs". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. February 16, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ a b c Scheiber, Noam; Stockman, Farah; Goodman, J. David (June 6, 2020). "How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
- ^ "Police Accountability Tool". Mapping Police Violence. Retrieved June 7, 2020.