The Kansas City Police Department saw a significant increase in the number of sworn officers over the past year.
The department will end 2025 with 1,148 officers on the force. That’s an increase of 51 sworn officers from a year ago, Police Chief Stacey Graves said Tuesday during the monthly meeting of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners.
“We truly are building back KCPD,” Graves said. “As you see in the numbers, and even as we’ve had an incident this morning in our city, there’s still a lot of work for us to do in 2026. But we’re up for the task.”…