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Danbury Police Department

City agency in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2014.

ORI
CT0003400
Type
City
County
Western Connecticut Planning Region
State
Connecticut
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2014-04-01
Location
41.4004, -73.4584

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 89,355.

156Sworn officers
8Civilian staff
1.84Employees per 1,000 people
89,355Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025156889,3551.84
2024156886,2571.90
2023159887,3271.91
2022142887,1641.72
2021141584,6311.73
2020149585,0801.81
2019148585,1671.80
2018145585,8181.75
2017139585,6141.68
2016146585,3351.77
2015146584,4041.79
2014143584,2811.76

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

1 person has died during an encounter with Danbury Police Department between 2018 and 2018, according to Mapping Police Violence.

1Deaths recorded
1.12Per 100,000 people policed
20182018Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot, Taser1

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.

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$51,461Original acquisition value
66Line items received
19972016Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter60$29,9402004-01-14
Underwater Sound Equipment4$20,0002016-09-27
Firing Device,Non-Lethal14$1,1072015-05-28
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter3$4141999-11-09

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Also policing Western Connecticut Planning Region

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 CT0003400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.