The Lincoln Police Department (LPD) is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. It has just over 300 police officers serving a population of 239,000 and an area of . The police per capita rate is a relatively low 1.34 officers per 1,000 people (the average being 1.94), and the violent crime rate of 522 per 100,000 people. The department is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies and was the first law enforcement agency in Nebraska to become so. - Source: Wikipedia
