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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Arizona.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 141 law enforcement agencies employing 14,591 sworn police officers, about 224 for each 100,000 residents.
Yuma County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona, on of 15 counties in the state. As of the 2020 census , its population was 203,881. [ 1 ] The county seat is Yuma .
# of employees 1 Marine Corps Air Station Yuma: 5,568 2 Yuma Union High School District: 3,100 3 U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground: 2,382 4 Yuma Regional Medical Center: 2,300 5 Yuma County 1,437 6 Yuma Elementary School District: 1,400 7 City of Yuma 1,274 8 TRAX 1,125 9 United States Border Patrol: 1,000 10 Arizona Western College: 987
This number does not include federal prisons, detention centers for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or county jails As of 2007, Arizona had exported more than 2,000 prisoners to privately run facilities in Oklahoma and Indiana, a number that would have been higher if not for a riot of Arizona prisoners at the GEO Group 's New Castle ...
Arizona State Prison Complex – Yuma is one of 13 prison facilities operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). ASPC–Yuma is located in San Luis, Yuma County, Arizona, 187 miles southwest from the state capital of Phoenix, Arizona. It lies about 12 miles south of downtown Yuma and only about three miles north of the Mexican border.
The US Justice Department has found that some localities participating in the 287(g) program have used their authority to commit large scale pattern or practice constitutional violations. For example, Maricopa, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio used his authority under § 287(g) to justify sweeps during which Latinos were illegally racially profiled.
The Yuma Test Branch was closed in 1949 and reactivated two years later as the Yuma Test Station, under the operational control of the Sixth U.S. Army. In 1962, the station was named Yuma Proving Ground and reassigned to the U.S. Army Materiel Command as an important component of the Test and Evaluation Command. On 26 July 1973, it officially ...
Somerton is a city in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 14,287. [3] It is part of the Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area. Somerton was established in 1898 and incorporated in 1918. Somerton's economy is based on agriculture, medical services, and tourism. [4]