Crime data in the weekly report is compiled on Monday mornings based on the data available at that time. As crimes are investigated the nature of and facts about a crime may result in revisions to data compiled in previous weeks. Any questions regarding the weekly crime report should be directed to the City of Providence, Office of Public Safety at 401-272-3121

Information and on using the PPD Arrest and Case Logs and a description of the data contained in the data sets.

Adults arrested or issued citations by the Providence Police Department during the past 60 days. Arrests are custodial actions where an individual is detained and transported to the City of Providence Public Safety Complex. Citations are non-custodial actions issued at the scene of a violation. Once issued a citation, an individual is allowed to leave unless there are additional charges that require being taken into custody.

This data set lists all state and municipal statute violations issued by the Providence Police. A single individual can be charged with multiple violations for a single incident. Multiple persons can also be charged in a single incident. The case number provided in the data set can be used to identify the incident and to look up the case information in the Providence Police Department - Case Log.

Recorded state and municipal offenses from AEGIS records management system of the Providence Police. A single case can contain multiple offenses. Refer to the case number to see all offenses for a particular case. The case number can also be used to look up arrest activity for a case in the Providence Police Arrest Log.

UPDATE:

Incident location is now using block range instead of house numbers. Addresses between 1 and 99 will be 0 Block, addresses between 100 and 199 will use 100 block and so on. If you are looking for actual addresses you can use the city's Open Records Portal to make a request.


To help maintain the anonymity of special victims and juveniles this list does not include violent sexual offenses, non-violent sexual offenses or incidents of harassment. Cases being investigated by the department's Special Victims Unit (SVU) or Youth Services Bureau (YSB) will not be published.