Haverhill Police Department

The Haverhill Police Department in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is organized into patrol, investigative, administrative, prosecution, public records and animal control divisions. The department was accredited at the state level by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission in November 2020 and earned national CALEA accreditation in November 2021. Its Behavioral Response Unit pairs a mental health clinician from Beth Israel Lahey Health's emergency psychiatry team with a sworn officer to co-respond to crisis calls, with the goal of steering people toward community treatment instead of hospital emergency rooms. Latino community liaison officers work with the city's Latino residents, and a gang unit partners with local, state and federal agencies while joining the state's Safe and Successful Youth Initiative to offer at-risk young people education and job help. A crime analysis unit tracks crime trends and prepares reports for COMPSTAT meetings. School resource officers are assigned to Haverhill Public Schools and Whittier Vocational Technical High School, and community policing officers run Stuff a Cruiser, Coffee with a Cop sessions and the city's National Night Out. Families of people who may wander can also enroll them in the free, confidential Safewatch program.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Haverhill city, MA has an estimated population of 67,387.