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Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Maricopa, Arizona, United States. This agency has never filed a crime return with the FBI.
- ORI
- AZ0070000
- Type
- County
- County
- Maricopa
- State
- Arizona (AZ)
- FBI reporting
- Never reported
- Location
- 33.4461, -112.0751
Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has no National Incident-Based Reporting System start date on record, which means no crime counts, clearance rates or arrest figures for this agency reach the national statistics. Reporting is voluntary in the United States.
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 342,500.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 569 | 2,560 | 342,500 | 9.14 |
| 2024 | 572 | 2,281 | 418,638 | 6.81 |
| 2023 | 581 | 2,316 | 363,480 | 7.97 |
| 2022 | 596 | 2,339 | 361,565 | 8.12 |
| 2021 | 628 | 2,519 | 421,167 | 7.47 |
| 2020 | 646 | 2,768 | 458,571 | 7.44 |
| 2019 | 670 | 2,773 | 429,757 | 8.01 |
| 2018 | 680 | 2,572 | 454,198 | 7.16 |
| 2017 | 703 | 2,636 | 400,793 | 8.33 |
| 2016 | 706 | 2,691 | 403,509 | 8.42 |
| 2015 | 708 | 2,724 | 395,937 | 8.67 |
| 2014 | 678 | 2,762 | 408,648 | 8.42 |
Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.
Deaths during encounters with this agency
47 people have died during an encounter with Maricopa County Sheriff's Office between 2001 and 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.
| Recorded cause | Deaths |
|---|---|
| Gunshot | 45 |
| Medical emergency | 1 |
| Vehicle | 1 |
What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.
These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.
Federal oversight
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has taken the following action against Maricopa County Sheriff's Office under 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The case type and document titles below are DOJ’s own words, reproduced without interpretation — see all federal oversight matters on /oversight.
DOJ’s case type: Enforcement
Case name, not an agency name. Arpaio was Sheriff of Maricopa County; the order runs against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
- Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (2013)
- Statement of Interest (2013)
- Supplemental Permanent Injunction (2013)
- Order to Show Cause Regarding Contempt (2015)
- Order Granting United States Intervention (2015)
- Complaint in Intervention (2015)
- Order Amending First Supplemental Permanent Injunction (2015)
- Findings of Fact Regarding Contempt (2016)
- Findings of Fact Regarding Contempt (2016)(Spanish)
- Order Regarding Second Supplemental Permanent Injunction (2016)
Source: Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section.
Also policing Maricopa
Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.
Source
Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record AZ0070000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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