The La Crosse Police Department has four Bureaus:

• Administrative Services
  Responsible for hiring, research and analysis, appropriations, grants, inventories, and funding concerns. 

• Community Services
  Manages community crime prevention education, news media relations, and school safety programming.

• Field Services
  Provides command and control for emergency response situations, dignitary escort and protection, mounted patrol, motorcycle patrol, bicycle patrol and foot patrol. 

• Investigative Services
  Responsible for follow-up on all criminal cases initiated in the Field Services Bureau as well as those initiated by investigative staff.