Regional police are multijurisdictional

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forces which cover at least two

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Canada

In Canada, there are three main types of regional police force. There are those that are operated by regional municipalities in the

provinces A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term ''provi ...

Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...

and

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; those shared by two independent municipalities, such as the

Kennebecasis Regional Police Force The Kennebecasis Regional Police Force (KRPF) is the police force responsible for towns of Rothesay and Quispamsis in the province of New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Provinces and Territories of Canada, province of Canada, bordering Quebe ...

; and those that are operated by a single municipality but contracted to serve other municipalities, like the

Victoria Police Department The Victoria Police Department (VicPD) is the municipal police force for the City of Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria and the Esquimalt, British Columbia, Township of Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. It is the oldest municipal police dep ...

and Thunder Bay Police Service. Many Indigenous communities are too small to sustain independent police forces — the Canadian reserve system operated on the assumption that Indigenous families required less land than settler families and routinely gave away reserve lands to settlers without Indigenous consultation or consent — and several instead maintain regional police agencies, either by contracting police services out to a neighbouring

municipal police Municipal police, city police, or local police are law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government. This includes the municipal government, where it is the smallest administrative subdivision. They receive fundi ...

force or by sharing police services with several other First Nations or Indigenous communities. There are several police services in

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that have "regional" in their name and serve regional municipalities, but they are not regional police forces in the traditional sense. While regional municipalities in Ontario and Quebec form an "upper tier" (

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level) of government, coordinating services like police and roads for several constituent municipalities (making those forces equivalent to US county sheriff departments), Nova Scotia regional municipalities are "single tier," handling all of the municipal services for a large area. Not every regional police force in Nova Scotia serves a regional municipality, however — the New Glasgow Regional Police Service serves two towns in Pictou County, New Glasgow and Trenton. Some police forces in Ontario — such as the

Toronto Police Service The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is a municipal police force in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the primary agency responsible for providing law enforcement and policing services in Toronto. Established in 1834, it was the first local police se ...

, Ottawa Police Service, and Greater Sudbury Police Service — had originally been regional police services, but ceased to function as true regional police agencies after the regional municipalities that they served were amalgamated into single-tier cities. The adoption of regional policing in Canada has been controversial. A 2016 review of nine mid-sized and large Canadian police services found no significant differences existed in cost or service quality between regional and non-regional police forces, and a literature review in 2015 found that larger police services are less effective and more expensive compared to mid-sized forces.

List of regional police services

* Anishinabek Police Service * BNPP Regional Police * Delta Police Department * Durham Regional Police Service * Eeyou Eenou Police Force *

Halton Regional Police Service The Halton Regional Police Service provides policing service for the Regional Municipality of Halton, which is located southwest of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. Halton Region encompasses the city of Burlington and the Towns of Oakville, Milton ...

* Lakeshore Regional Police Service * Manitoba First Nations Police * New Glasgow Regional Police *

Niagara Regional Police Service The Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) is a Regional police#Canada, regional police service maintained by the Regional Municipality of Niagara in the Canadian province of Ontario. As of 2021, the force employed 774 sworn police officers and 3 ...

* Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service *

Nunavik Police Service The Nunavik Police Service (NPS; , ) delivers regular policing services in the 14 remote northern villages of the Kativik Region. The headquarters of the NPS are in Kuujjuaq, and detachments operate in each community. The service was formerly cal ...

Peel Regional Police The Peel Regional Police (PRP; ) provides policing services for Peel Region (excluding Caledon) in Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest municipal police service in the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, and the third largest municipal force b ...

* South Simcoe Police Service * Straford Police Service * Thunder Bay Police Service * Treaty Three Police Service *

Vancouver Police Department The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) () is the police force in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Greater Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the provinc ...

* Waterloo Regional Police Service * Windsor Police Service *

York Regional Police The York Regional Police (YRP; ) is the police service of the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. YRP was formed in 1971 from the police forces maintained by the nine municipalities which amalgamated into York Region at the time. The ...

United States

Nevada

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is a combined city and county law enforcement agency for the Las Vegas, City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is headed by the Sheriff of Clar ...

New Jersey

Camden County Police Department The Camden County Police Department (CCPD) is a county police department providing law enforcement services to the city of Camden, New Jersey, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey and as of October 1, 2024 Woodlynne, New Jersey. The Camden County P ...

- despite the name is not an actual regional police as the only member community is the City of Camden. The CCPD does receive half of its funding from County of Camden.

New York

Nassau County Police Department The Nassau County Police Department (also referred to as the Nassau Police & Nassau County Police and abbreviated as NCPD) is the law enforcement agency of Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, on Long Island, New York (state), New York, Unit ...

Suffolk County Police Department The Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) provides police services to 5 of the 10 Towns in Suffolk County, New York. It is the second largest county police agency in the United States, with approximately 2500 sworn officers. History Prior ...

Pennsylvania

Through the formation of a "

police district Police district is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force. The 1885 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' stated: Police forces using this format include: * Chicago Police Department * Baltimore Police Department * York Regi ...

" under the control of a Police Commission, some municipalities in Pennsylvania have found that improved and more professional police services could be obtained through inter-governmental cooperation. Having one police department covering two or more neighboring communities, rather than separate police departments, allows each municipality to enjoy the benefits of a larger department, such as specialized units and a professional staff. * Central Berks Regional Police * Central Bucks Regional Police * Colonial Regional Police * Eastern Adams County Regional Police * Eastern Pike County Regional Police * Mifflin County Regional Police * Northeastern York County Regional Police * Northern Berks Regional Police * Northern Regional Police Department * Northern York County Regional Police *

Pennridge Regional Police The Pennridge Regional Police is a regional police force covering East Rockhill Township, Pennsylvania, East and West Rockhill Township, Pennsylvania, West Rockhill Townships in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is headquartered at 200 Ridge Rd. Sel ...

* Pocono Mountain Regional Police * Slate Belt Regional Police * Southern York Regional Police * Southwestern York County Regional Police * Stroud Area Regional Police * Upper Perk Police District * West Hills Regional Police * West Shore Regional Police * Westtown East Goshen Regional Police * York Area Regional Police * Berks-Lehigh Regional Police (defunct) * Brandywine Regional Police (defunct)

Tennessee

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, commonly known in the area as Metro Police, is the primary provider of law enforcement services for Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County, Tenn ...

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