Anchorage Police Department

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Anchorage Police Department
Common name	Anchorage Police
Abbreviation	APD
Agency overview
Formed	1920
Employees	516
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Map of Anchorage Police Department's jurisdiction
Size	159 square miles (410 km2)
Population	279,671[1]
Operational structure
Headquarters	716 West Fourth Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Sworn officers	413 (as of 2021)[2]
Support staff members	161 (as of 2021)[3]
Agency executive	Michael Kerle, Chief of Police
Units	List Uniform Patrol Detective/Investigations Homicide Response Team Assault/Robbery Hostage Negotiations K-9 Traffic School Resource S.W.A.T. Bomb Squad Crime Prevention Crisis Intervention Cyber Crimes
Website
www.muni.org/apd1/apd911.cfm

The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is the police department of the Municipality of Anchorage in Alaska. Functioning as a service area of the Municipality, its patrol area includes the core "Anchorage bowl", the Seward Highway corridor from Potter Creek south to McHugh Creek, and the Glenn Highway corridor north of the Anchorage bowl to the municipality's border with the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, including the communities of Eagle River, Chugiak and Eklutna. Through a memorandum of understanding, APD also handles calls on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson which involve civilian suspects or victims. Serving Alaska's largest city, APD is also the only metropolitan agency and the largest municipal police force in Alaska.

Unlike other Alaska police agencies except the Alaska State Troopers, APD is large enough that it is able to be the only municipal police agency that operates its own internal police academy, which is accredited by the Alaska Police Standards Council (APSC), the Alaska state law enforcement officer credentialing and regulatory agency. Applicants are also accepted as entry-level officers who have graduated from the other two police academies in the state, the paramilitary AK Trooper Academy in Sitka in SE Alaska, which trains the majority of officers in the state and the Tannana Valley Academy, which is affiliated with University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UAF). Out of state police officers are also often accepted as lateral entry candidates based on their backgrounds and training. APD Basic recruit classes are conducted as needed when sufficient vacancies arise. In-service and specialized training is also offered to APD officers and to other agency guest officers.