Ogdensburg Police Department

Officers with Ogdensburg's police department in New York are on call around the clock, and the work is split between patrol and investigations, each under a lieutenant. The department's special assignments include bike and marine patrol, arson cases, narcotics work and D.A.R.E. classes, and a full-time school resource officer works with the city's young people. It also oversees the city's dog control officer, its bingo inspector and nuisance animal control. Its crime prevention officer encourages residents and property owners to join the Neighborhood Watch Program and offers seasonal advice, such as locking homes and vehicles at all hours and never leaving money, gifts, purses or electronics in cars, to reduce criminal mischief, vehicle break-ins and burglaries. A police blotter is posted online. Online resources include Amber Alert information, the New York State Office of Victim Services and the state sex offender registry, which New York maintains under the Sex Offender Registration Act, Correction Law Article 6-C.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Ogdensburg city, NY has an estimated population of 9,600.