Rutland City Police Department

What Rutland City Police Department does

The Rutland City Police Department (RCPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency for the City of Rutland, Vermont, founded in 1892 and headquartered at 108 Wales Street. The department operates across a 7.67 square mile jurisdiction serving a permanent population of 15,851 that effectively doubles to more than 30,000 during daytime hours, and it handled 17,409 calls for service in 2025 under the leadership of Chief of Police Matthew Prouty. Its structure is organized into four divisions: Patrol (operating four 12-hour rotating shifts and handling the majority of calls including traffic stops, crashes, and emergency response), the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) for major and complex cases, Community Outreach (addressing root causes of crime and including K9, school resource, downtown beat, animal control, and community resource specialists), and Support Services (records, professional standards, evidence, and operations management). The agency is publicly funded by the City of Rutland; it does not sell core services competitively and operates as a statutory monopoly on law enforcement within city limits.

RCPD's public-facing product set extends beyond core policing to include civilian fingerprinting appointments (Tuesdays and Thursdays, $35 plus a $1.46 credit card processing fee, booked through Square), alarm permit issuance ($25 residential, $75 commercial, with graduated false-alarm fines), public records requests and accident report distribution, formal compliment/complaint intake, off-duty officer hire-back to private events and businesses (starting at $80/hour), and an active police officer recruitment pipeline managed through GovPilot with starting pay of $34.41/hour post-academy and top step at $43.66/hour. The department's technology footprint is intentionally lightweight: WordPress website, Instagram for community engagement, Square for payments and scheduling, GovPilot for applications, Google Drive for publishing daily call logs and weekly crime/traffic PDF reports, and vermont.gov email infrastructure. There is no proprietary platform, no mobile app, and no API surface disclosed.

Commercial revenue is not a meaningful concept for the agency; it is funded through municipal taxation with a handful of nominal user fees. The department's strategic posture emphasizes transparency (published crime and speed data), community-rooted policing via its embedded relationship with Project Vision, inter-agency cooperation with Vermont State Police and the Rutland Fire Department, and active workforce expansion targeting experienced public-safety lateral hires.

Name

Rutland City Police Department

Legal name

The Rutland City Police Department

Website

https://rutlandcitypolice.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1892

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Rutland City Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency for Rutland City, Vermont, serving 15,851 residents across 7.67 square miles via Patrol, Criminal Investigations, Community Outreach, and Support Services divisions, handling 17,000+ calls for service annually under Chief Matthew Prouty.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Law Enforcement

NAICS

Police Protection (92212)

SIC

Services-Detective, Guard & Armored Car Services (7381)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIAGAA

Police Services (Patrol, Response & Community Policing)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Law Enforcement & Public Safety (Police, Fire, EMS)

SECONDARYEDALAEAG

Crime Prevention & Community Policing Programs

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Campus Safety, Security & Emergency Management

Keywords

• Municipal law enforcement
• Public safety services
• Criminal investigations
• Community policing
• Traffic enforcement

Headquarters

HQ city

Rutland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Rutland City Police Department delivers municipal law enforcement services for the City of Rutland, Vermont, through four divisions: Patrol, the Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Community Outreach, and Support Services. Its offering combines continuous uniformed patrol, criminal investigation, community engagement, and administrative services such as records, fingerprinting, alarm permitting, and off-duty officer hiring.

Product overview

The Rutland City Police Department provides comprehensive law enforcement services through four operational divisions: Patrol (handling over 17,000 annual calls for service), Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Community Outreach, and Support Services. The department offers public-facing services including crime and traffic data reporting, fingerprinting appointments, official records management, compliment/complaint submission, and off-duty officer hiring. Recruitment services target both sworn officers (starting at $34.41/hour) and civilian employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Project Vision (Rutland)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Outreach Division commander serves as executive director of Project Vision. Project Vision is a community initiative addressing public health issues and underlying conditions of criminal activity through collaborative outreach programs.
• City of Rutland Fire DepartmentminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint community events including Battle of the Badges Blood Drive, combining fire and police departments in friendly competition to support blood donation.
• Vermont State PoliceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInter-agency collaboration for missing persons searches and other law enforcement assistance. Vermont State Police notified RCPD of missing persons cases affecting the Rutland area.
• American Red CrossminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for blood drives. RCPD participates in community blood donation events alongside the Fire Department.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Axon Enterprise: Dominant vendor of body-worn cameras, TASER devices, and digital evidence management for U.S. police agencies. Relevant as a supplier RCPD could partner with to modernize its records and officer technology stack.
• Motorola Solutions: Major provider of public-safety communications, command-center software, and video solutions to law enforcement. Comparable to RCPD's potential technology supplier category for CAD/RMS modernization.
• Flock Safety: License-plate-reader and crime-solving technology vendor widely adopted by small and mid-sized U.S. police departments. Relevant adjacent technology provider for a department focused on traffic enforcement and property crime.
• Police Executive Research Forum (PERF): National membership organization for police chiefs and law enforcement executives, providing research, training, and policy guidance. Relevant as an industry-association peer that shapes the standards and best practices RCPD's leadership follows.

Emerging players

• Mark43: Cloud-native public-safety software platform (RMS, CAD, analytics) displacing legacy systems at mid-sized departments. Comparable as a modern tech-stack alternative RCPD could adopt to replace manual records and Google-Drive data sharing.
• SoundThinking: Public-safety technology company offering gunshot detection (ShotSpotter) and resource-deployment analytics. Relevant as an emerging-player peer for a small department that could adopt such tools to address its 59 June drug-related incidents.

Direct peers

• Barre City Police Department: Another small Vermont municipal police department of similar size and budget profile, offering a tight comparability benchmark on staffing, call volume, and small-city policing economics.
• South Burlington Police Department: Vermont municipal police department serving a similar suburban-Vermont community adjacent to Burlington. Direct peer with comparable division structure, response model, and operating constraints.
• Burlington Police Department: Vermont's largest municipal police department, serving Burlington (~45,000 residents). Closest direct peer in the same state with comparable patrol, investigations, and community outreach functions, though at materially larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Vermont State Police: State-level law enforcement agency that already partners with RCPD on missing persons and inter-agency assistance. Broader geographic authority and resources, but overlapping jurisdiction on certain crimes and investigations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/RutlandCityPD

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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