What is Elliot Stabler's badge number?

Elliot Stabler’s badge number is 6313. The number is stated in his fictional character biography for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Stabler served as a New York City police detective assigned to Manhattan’s Special Victims Unit. In the show’s continuity, he joined the NYPD in 1986, became a detective in 1989, and was working in SVU by 1992. When the series begins, he is already an experienced detective and is partnered with Olivia Benson.

The badge number is easy to confuse with other police identifiers in the franchise, including precinct references, ranks, shield numbers, and case numbers. It is also separate from Stabler’s military history: he was a U.S. Marine and served in Operation Desert Storm before his police career.

Stabler is portrayed as intensely committed but emotionally reactive, often taking cases personally. He remained one of the show’s central detectives through season 12, leaving after a precinct shootout. Christopher Meloni later reprised the role in Law & Order: Organized Crime.