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Wasco Police Department
City agency in Kern, California. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2024.
- ORI
- CA0151000
- Type
- City
- County
- Kern
- State
- California
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 2024-06-01
- Location
- 35.3466, -118.7295
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 27,937.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | 11 | 27,937 | 1.07 |
| 2024 | 20 | 11 | 27,456 | 1.13 |
| 1998 | 16 | 5 | 18,739 | 1.12 |
| 1981 | 16 | 5 | 9,801 | 2.14 |
| 1980 | 16 | 5 | 9,547 | 2.20 |
| 1979 | 17 | 5 | 9,364 | 2.35 |
| 1978 | 15 | 4 | 8,974 | 2.12 |
| 1977 | 15 | 4 | 9,071 | 2.09 |
| 1976 | 15 | 4 | 8,925 | 2.13 |
| 1975 | 14 | 5 | 8,654 | 2.20 |
| 1974 | 12 | 4 | 8,475 | 1.89 |
| 1973 | 11 | 3 | 8,400 | 1.67 |
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.
Also policing Kern
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 CA0151000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.