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Sebastian Police Department

City agency in Indian River, Florida, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2025.

ORI
FL0310200
Type
City
County
Indian River
State
Florida (FL)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2025-01-01
Location
27.8172, -80.4748

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 27,602.

45Sworn officers
21Civilian staff
2.39Employees per 1,000 people
27,602Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025452127,6022.39
2024392227,4452.22
2023371827,0042.04
2022401426,2582.06
2021411826,9822.19
2020411626,6262.14
2019411926,2322.29
2018392025,6722.30
2017371825,2772.18
2016341824,4412.13
2015361923,7062.32
2014351922,8892.36

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 Sebastian Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1998 and 2024. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm2
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet47
Other weapon22
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19980021
19990022
20000010
20021021
20030010
20040020
20050013
20060011
20070013
20080111
20090020
20100030
20110011
20120031
20130020
20140010
20160020
20171041
20180042
20190021
20200031
20220021
20230021
20240021

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 Indian River

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 FL0310200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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