Laramie Police release 2025 annual report, detailing calls and accountability

The Laramie Police Department said its patrol division handles about 27,000 calls a year, or roughly 77 calls a day, a workload that frames the city’s newest annual report as more than a paperwork exercise. The 2025 report, released April 22, gives residents a public accounting of how the department spent the year and what kinds of pressures shaped policing in Laramie.

Chief Brian Browne leads the department, which says it has 75 employees, including 47 sworn officers. The city says the agency’s mission is to “protect and serve with dignity and respect,” and the department says its work centers on protecting life and property, upholding individual rights, enforcing local ordinances and state laws, and maintaining public peace.

The report’s table of contents shows the scope of that work. It includes calls for service, crime statistics, citation demographics, bias crimes, parking citations, driving under the influence, use of force, complaints, a behavioral health co-response program, community engagement, social media growth, awards and recognition, and meet-the-team staffing information. Together, those sections give residents a clearer look at where officers are being deployed and what problems are most common across the city.

That matters in a community the department says includes about 33,700 residents across 18.38 square miles. In Laramie, police calls can range from neighborhood complaints and traffic stops to downtown incidents, weather-related problems, campus activity tied to the University of Wyoming, and calls in Albany County’s rural areas. The annual report is meant to show how much of that demand the department is absorbing and how it is adjusting its priorities.

The city said annual police reports are published every year, and the 2025 edition follows the same transparency format used in 2024. It also fits into a larger push to improve relations between residents and police. Laramie created a Police Advisory Board in 2023, and the city later launched the Albany Care Team Program with Volunteers of America, the Albany County Sheriff’s Office and University of Wyoming Police to respond to mental health crises with help from both law enforcement and mental health experts.

For city leaders, the report offers a benchmark for staffing, training, recruitment and budgeting. For residents, it is a snapshot of the pressures on local policing and the department’s own measure of its accountability as Laramie heads into another year of service.