TPD Calls for Service – a 2 month snapshot

During the June 4, 2026 discussion about school zone speed cameras Chief of Staff John Bennett discussed how the Tampa Police Department handles about half a million calls a year and that a lot of those would be complaint driven; a "reactive state."

Part of Tampa Police Department's transparency dashboard includes a rolling 7 day list of calls for service. Tampa Monitor started tracking that to get a glimpse at what makes up those half a million calls each year.

Over the two months from June 14 through August 13, Tampa police dispatched 59,364 calls for service — an average of about 973 calls a day, every day. Here is what those calls were, using the department's own dispatch labels, listed exactly as they appear in the feed.

Every call type, as TPD labels them

These are TPD's own dispatch descriptions, unedited and ungrouped. The chart shows the twenty most common types — about 91% of all calls — and the full list of all 61 follows in the table.

What this is, and isn't

A few things to keep in mind before reading anything into these numbers:

• This is a two-month snapshot, not a trend. Sixty-one days of summer can't tell you whether any of this is going up, down, or is typical of the rest of the year.
• These are dispatch labels — what the call was coded as when an officer was sent, not what an officer found on arrival, and not whether a crime occurred. A DISTURBANCE call can turn out to be nothing; a NATURE UNKNOWN call can turn out to be anything.
• Most of the call labels are self-explanatory however we did reach out to ask about a couple of the labels
  • “Building Check” = Circumstances that exist warranting an officer to search the premises.
  • “Information” = Used as classification for any type of incident not covered by another dispatch signal.
  • “Project” may refer to the classification of “Special Project,” which is a specifically focused effort.