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Poway Police Department

City agency in San Diego, California, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
CA037A300
Type
City
County
San Diego
State
California (CA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
32.9556, -117.0452

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2015, covering a population of 50,327.

1Sworn officers
0Civilian staff
0.02Employees per 1,000 people
50,327Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20151050,3270.02
20141049,7860.02
20111048,3730.02
19980048,6710.00

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.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Poway Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2002 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument4
Hands, fists or feet91
Other weapon10
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
20020012
20030010
20040040
20050040
20060010
20070010
20080001
20090130
20100040
20110051
20120020
20130090
20140041
20150041
20160042
20170040
20180030
201900110
20200070
20220051
20230241
20240190
20250010

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Also policing San Diego

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 CA037A300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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