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The department personnel includes over 1450 full-time sworn members. The department responds to more than 950,000 police calls per year on average. The most recent census ranked Nashville as the 21st largest U.S. city. In 2000 the Department of Justice ranked the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department as the 36th largest U.S. police department.
Council member Mike Cortese during the first Metro Council meeting of the new term at Historic Metro Nashville Courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Analyzing board member pay
Metropolitan Police Officers at a protest downtown. On January 2, 2007, Cathy L. Lanier took the post of Chief of Police. Lanier, who began her career as a Metropolitan Police patrol officer, became the first female chief of the department.
An alternate proposal for Nashville's 2025 budget shaped by the Metro Council would give city employees a 4% cost-of-living raise, put $1 million toward youth violence prevention initiatives and ...
The Nashville metropolitan area (officially the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area) is a metropolitan statistical area in north-central Tennessee. Its principal city is Nashville, the capital of and largest city in Tennessee. With a population of over 2 million, it is the most populous metropolitan ...
The city is launching an independent investigation into the Metro Nashville Police Department following explosive allegations in a complaint from a retired police lieutenant detailing an alleged ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Tennessee.. According to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 375 law enforcement agencies employing 15,976 sworn police officers, about 256 for each 100,000 residents.
In 2023, the state government enacted a law reducing the size of the Metro Council from 40 members to 20. [5] The move was widely opposed by Nashville residents and leaders. In April 2023, a court issued an injunction against the change, indicating that it unconstitutionally changed election procedures during the campaign. [6]