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Polk County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Polk, Florida. This agency has never filed a crime return with the FBI.

ORI
FL0530000
Type
County
County
Polk
State
Florida
FBI reporting
Never reported
Location
27.9531, -81.6928

Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. Polk 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 541,319.

774Sworn officers
1,116Civilian staff
3.49Employees per 1,000 people
541,319Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20257741,116541,3193.49
20248001,025553,0203.30
20237351,002518,8553.35
2022672490506,6512.29
2021671510484,9892.44
2020680513481,5792.48
2019652518467,7112.50
2018661499457,0702.54
2017651497443,9612.59
2015641444424,3132.56
20146431,396416,6674.89
2012601957406,4463.83

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

35 people have died during an encounter with Polk County Sheriff's Office between 2013 and 2026, according to Mapping Police Violence.

35Deaths recorded
6.47Per 100,000 people policed
20132026Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot35

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.

$1.5mOriginal acquisition value
10Line items received
20132016Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle2$1.5m2016-02-29
Sight,Reflex94$2,3732016-09-13
Illuminator,Integrated,Small Arms20$9702016-04-22

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 Polk

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 FL0530000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.