Wikipedia:WikiProject Law Enforcement

Welcome to WikiProject Law Enforcement. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Law enforcement and the organization of information and articles on this topic.

This WikiProject, an open group of Wikipedia editors, is believed to be semi-active.

Although there may be fewer editors here than in the past, anyone is welcome to participate in the group or to leave a message for us.

Remove the |Semi-active parameter from this template if activity resumes or if this tag was changed in error. If almost no activity occurs in this WikiProject, consider replacing this tag with {{WikiProject status|Inactive}}.

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This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Principles

Join, Create, Assess. This project needs to expand, add your name to the list on the participants subpage if you're interested and get stuck in writing a law enforcement article, add the banner and put it up for assessment, and please assess as many existing articles as you can! Ensure to check out the scope of the project!
No vandalism, no conflict. This project, by definition, strives continually for community good will, and a reduction in vandalism. Let members of this project set excellent examples as honest, hard working, polite Wikipedians! If there are problems with a particular article in the project, please add it to the Article Watch section of the vandalism subpage. Vandalism will be reverted on sight.
Read the bulletin board. With such ground to cover, and so much work still to do, it is vital that all users check the bulletin board frequently for news, updates and important requests.

Scope

We include

Topics directly related to policing and law enforcement, including:

types of police, specialized roles, organisations, institutions, departments, agencies, uniforms and ranks, crime science theory and research, investigative techniques and procedures, tools, equipment and assets used, services provided, related statistics, governance, empowering legislation and administration, issues and controversies, history, pioneers and notable individuals;

Offender rehabilitation, Victim support, Police and law enforcement employee related education, sports, recreation, off-duty activities and involvement in community service.

And miscellaneous policing related topics.

We do not include

Crime and criminology, sociology, law, and similar topics that are related to police work but are more concerned with society or the criminal justice system overall than law enforcement alone. (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography.)
Forensic sciences and techniques that have more general applications in medicine and the sciences, or require specialists or experts to use in an investigation, or are not commonly and frequently used or applied directly by police officers.
Topics that are predominantly related to the military, intelligence, espionage, surveillance or national security despite having a minor law enforcement related connection.
Firearms and ammunition, except specific standard issue weapons commonly used by Police forces and ammunition with specific policing applications (rubber bullets, sponge rounds)

Article alerts and quality statistics

More information Law enforcement articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Law enforcement articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	8	18			28
FL				3			3
A				1			1
GA		6	25	78			109
B	3	69	152	503			727
C	7	107	350	2,109		2	2,575
Start	2	80	458	5,031			5,571
Stub		12	103	1,778			1,893
List	3	5	39	533			580
Category					3,548		3,548
Disambig					49		49
File					301		301
Project					20		20
Redirect					970		970
Template					303		303
Draft					78		78
Assessed	15	281	1,135	10,054	5,269	2	16,756
Total	15	281	1,135	10,054	5,269	2	16,756
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 51,913			Ω = 4.76

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Did you know

27 Feb 2026 – Nicholas Tartaglione (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

04 Mar 2026 – Gresham cat hostage taking incident (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TheTechie (t · c) was closed as keep by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 12 Mar 2026; see discussion (7 participants)

Proposed deletions

12 Mar 2026 – Rajesh Dandotiya (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Aesurias (t · c) was deproded by Ldm1954 (t · c) on 13 Mar 2026

Redirects for discussion

27 Feb 2026 – Political protests (talk · edit · hist) →Political demonstration was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
27 Feb 2026 – Political protest (talk · edit · hist) →Political demonstration was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

14 Feb 2026 – Springfield race riot of 1908 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BretHarteChitown (t · c); start discussion
13 Feb 2026 – Texis Cartel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start discussion
05 Jan 2026 – Patlabor (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sashimi-b (t · c); start discussion
14 Oct 2025 – Odessa pogroms (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by AndreJustAndre (t · c); start discussion
15 Sep 2025 – Killing of Ma'Khia Bryant (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wikiexplorationandhelping (t · c); start discussion
02 Sep 2025 – Saskatchewan Marshals Service (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ominae (t · c); start discussion

Guidelines

All articles within the scope of WikiProject Law Enforcement should follow WP:NPOV, like all articles on Wikipedia. This means that we, Wikipedians, should not judge the action of the criminal, the witness, the police officers, the judge, or the governmental employees. We just have to describe the fact.
No original research. Even you work for a police force; you have the jurisdiction and you are legal to do a criminal investigation; it is not allowed to write out your new investigation on Wikipedia. This also applies to reporters and victims.
Respect the principal "presumption of innocence". We should not state someone as "criminal" or "killer" before the court decides. WP:BLPCRIME stated that, "Editors must seriously consider not including material in any article that suggests the person has committed, is suspected of, is a person of interest in, or is accused of having committed a crime, unless a conviction has been secured for that crime."

Templates

Infoboxes

Stub templates

{{Law-enforcement-stub}} for articles that do not fit any of the below categories:
- {{Law-enforcement-agency-stub}}
  - {{UK-law-enforcement-agency-stub}}
  - {{US-law-enforcement-agency-stub}}
- {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub}}
  - {{UK-law-enforcement-bio-stub}}
  - {{US-law-enforcement-bio-stub}}

Talk page template

{{WikiProject Law Enforcement}} will add the article to this project:

Law Enforcement Mid‑importance

	Law portal This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Law Enforcement. Please Join, Create, and Assess.Law EnforcementWikipedia:WikiProject Law EnforcementTemplate:WikiProject Law EnforcementLaw enforcement
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Open tasks

The Law Enforcement WikiProject's
Bulletin Board

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Bulletin Board Headlines

At User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Law and Law Enforcement, User:Skysmith has created a useful list of Law and Law enforcement redlinks.
On Commons- categorizing and organizing: Category:Demonstrations and protests in the United States in 2014.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Knight of Gloucestershire (talk) 19:09, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Supaflyrobby (talk) (I am interested in working on criminology and narcotics trafficking related articles). 23:25, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Profmwilliams (talk · contribs) I teach policing at Weber State University and I am particularly interested in police-citizen interactions and community responses to crime more generally. I am incorporating a Wikipedia assignment into my course this fall, so my students will be editing a variety of Wikipedia pages related to law enforcement. 01:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
SantiLak I am interested in adding pages for departments that haven't been listed yet, updating pages, and removing vandalism. I also am mostly interested in creating california law enforcement articles. 21:19, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
kfb001 I am interested in working on articles focusing on technology used in policing and law enforcement. 16:36, 25 September 2014 (EST)
rflower I am interested in revising and expanding articles that discuss issues in police/mentally ill interactions, international policing, and/or criminological perspectives on policing. --15:39, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
Chinnz (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on articles related to my locality and improve the standard of Wikipedia articles. 12:44, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Kaguchi (talk · contribs) I'm interested in expanding stubs and taking care of article details other contributors may overlook. 14:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
PaulBustion88 (talk · contribs) I'm interested in providing citations for articles, like I did for the sheriff article, and in expanding the parts of the articles about police history. I also might be interested in editing articles related to the Darren Wilson case after I have learned more about it. 02:25, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
BRES2773 (talk · contribs) I'll really edit any incorrect information. 23:14, 7 May 2015‎ (UTC)
Shoman93 (talk · contribs) Past student of criminology & history in British Columbia, interested in law enforcement, crime, and history. 00:26, 22 May 2015‎ (UTC)
Catmando999 (talk · contribs) I wan to assist especially with murderers. 06:12, 13 October 2015‎ (UTC)
Sudawei (talk · contribs) Completing my Graduate studies in Criminal Justice and a full time LEO. I am interested in identifying and addressing the reasons crime occurs. 01:06, 30 December 2015‎ (UTC)
Hullian111 (talk · contribs) Self-proclaimed policing enthusiast here, I'll edit the little things, maybe. Also would like a 'This user is a member of' thing, too. 19:16, 28 May 2016‎ (UTC)
MordeKyle (talk · contribs) I work in law enforcement. I also advocate law enforcement protecting the rights of all civilians. 21:38, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
TommyBoy (talk · contribs) My interests include articles on federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in the United States, and related biography articles. 01:55, 5 May 2017‎ (UTC)
WPCW (talk · contribs) - PhD candidate specialising in anti-social behaviour legislation and topics. 20:01, 15 May 2018‎ (UTC)
SomeThingsLaw Constitutional and legal theory. 04:34, 9 July 2018‎ (UTC)
CaptainGummyBearz (talk · contribs) - Anything related to federal agencies in the United States. 03:10, 11 July 2018‎ (UTC)
DoctorKarpiak (talk · contribs). I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. My research focuses on anthropological (cultural, comparative, holistic) approaches to policing, with a regional specialty in France and the U.S. During the Fall 2018 semester I will be adding a Wikipedia editing component to my Senior Seminar in Criminology course. 19:14, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Maguirej03 (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on articles related to law enforcement in the United Kingdom.) 21:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
MPSHeritage (talk · contribs) - British policing history, particularly History of the Metropolitan Police and women in law enforcement in the United Kingdom. 14:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Rx22e (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on articles related to the Metropolitan Police Service, document examination and digital policing) 17:54, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
franksan (talk · contribs) (I am an ordinary U.S. citizen, interested in the question of authority and power interfaces among the three branches of U.S. Federal government with respect to investigation, judicial processes, and enforcement of Court findings when applied to the President of the United States.) 22:51, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
CharlesViBritannia (talk) I'm interested in expanding stubs and articles related to the Police services in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 15:53, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Lieutenantderp (talk · contribs) (US law enforcement officer) 11:06, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
conlanolberding (talk · contribs) I am looking for some help creating a page describing the internal discipline process for NYPD officers. I have been collecting research notes here https://www.reddit.com/r/DefundNYPD/ but need help with wiki formatting. Most of this information is public and there are links to sources on the sub. 18:19, 26 June 2020‎ (UTC)
BlunanNation (talk · contribs) I am a Brish Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service with a respectable number of years of experience and I am willing to help on a number of British Law Enforcement projects/crimes, particularly those in the London area. Please leave a message on my talkpage if you would like help with someone related to British Law Enforcement. 21:53, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
Nodesec (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on Law Enforcement Agency of Kerala as a volunteer. 12:53:40, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
V.a.PJHC (talk) 04:28, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Melbguy05 (talk · contribs) Interested in Australian/Oceania/Southwest Pacific police, tactical units/SWAT, infoboxes law enforcement agency and law enforcement unit. 02:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Der rikkk (talk · contribs) I work in the field of Law Enforcement, interested in articles about the Police in Germany, Israel, South America and anything that sounds interesting 15:03, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
Randoperson1 (talk · contribs) I am interested in United States Federal Law Enforcement. 1:16, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
GreenBeret1439 (talk · contribs) I'm interested in US law enforcement at all levels. I am particularly interested in Virginian agencies.
KhiVoh (talk · contribs) I'm interested in public service (particularly law enforcement) world-wide. I have professional experience in researching and writing which I hope to use to contribute.
Nfutvol (talk · contribs) Working on a rebuild of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency page.
Shako18 (talk · contribs) Predominantly working with New Zealand Police and a Criminology graduate. 12:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Bradleyhodges129 (talk · contribs) Working on articles related to the Western Australia Police Force. 10:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Queen of Hearts (talk · contribs) 16:58, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Jiwhit01 (talk · contribs) Working to build out Multinational law enforcement operation articles and develop a standard template and infobox to associate with law enforcement operations pages. eximo (talk) 02:34, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
ItsKittay (talk · contribs) Interested in copy-editing and fixing Law Enforcement articles with grammatical/translation errors. Particular areas of interest involve law enforcement in Oceania and U.S. federal LEA's.
Justyouraveragelechuga (talk) I'm interested in law enforcement vehicles and their gear.
Thehistorianisaac (talk · contribs) Law enforcement in china, paramilitary law enforcement e.g. People's Armed Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police along with internal intel agencies e.g. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Cameron Dewe (talk · contribs) I have been assessing WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography for several years and sometimes encounter articles where there is also a banner for this WikiProject that I will often assess as well. So I thought a good idea to participate, too. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 22:51, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
Thinkstationx220 (talk · contribs) Primarily interested in law enforcement in the United States specifically local or state LEAs.Thinkstationx220 (talk) 17:07, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikiediter2029 (talk · contribs) Interested in Law enforcement roles plays mainly in roblox for UK based games. Also made 1 article and 1 as a draft for law. Wikiediter2029 (talk) 21:04, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
Gilgongo (talk · contribs) Have recently re-written and expanded Crime statistics the UK, and extensively updated Crime in London 09:29, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
Swatjester (talk · contribs) I've been working at the intersection of the Military History, Firearms, and Law Enforcement wikiprojects for years now. Thought I'd added myself here, but apparently not. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 16:44, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

Articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Law Enforcement}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.