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Fort Walton Beach Police Department

City agency in Okaloosa, Florida. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2022.

ORI: FL0460200
Type: City
County: Okaloosa
State: Florida
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2022-01-01
Location: 30.4125, -86.6117

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 21,253.

50Sworn officers

19Civilian staff

3.25Employees per 1,000 people

21,253Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	50	19	21,253	3.25
2024	49	13	20,920	2.96
2023	49	12	21,031	2.90
2022	50	12	20,876	2.97
2021	51	25	22,713	3.35
2020	50	11	22,871	2.67
2019	44	17	22,645	2.69
2018	43	13	22,263	2.52
2017	44	16	22,413	2.68
2016	40	14	22,314	2.42
2015	42	15	22,107	2.58
2014	41	12	20,881	2.54

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 Fort Walton Beach Police Department between 2016 and 2016, according to Mapping Police Violence.

1Deaths recorded

4.71Per 100,000 people policed

2016–2016Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	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.

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.

$188,481Original acquisition value

3Line items received

2001–2020Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Only Complete Combat/Assault/Tactical Wheeled Vehicles	1	$138,000	2001-01-31
Truck,Utility	1	$49,897	2011-09-07
Conversion Kit,Rifle	5	$584	2020-03-12

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 Okaloosa

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Crestview Police DepartmentCity · reporting Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement: OkaloosaOther State Agency · never reported Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General: Okaloosa CountyOther State Agency · never reported Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement: Okaloosa CountyOther State Agency · never reported Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco: Okaloosa CountyOther State Agency · never reported Florida Game Commission: Okaloosa CountyOther State Agency · never reported Highway Patrol: Okaloosa CountyState Police · reporting Niceville Police DepartmentCity · reporting Northwest Florida State CollegeUniversity or College · never reported Okaloosa County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting Shalimar Police DepartmentCity · never reported Valparaiso Police DepartmentCity · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record FL0460200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.