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Clayton County Police Department

County agency in Clayton, Georgia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI
GA0310100
Type
County
County
Clayton
State
Georgia (GA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2019-06-01
Location
33.5414, -84.3451

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 234,269.

351Sworn officers
127Civilian staff
2.04Employees per 1,000 people
234,269Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025351127234,2692.04
2024292128236,3151.78
2023271185235,7141.93
202231697236,2551.75
2021333101235,5331.84
2020372130243,0772.07
2019347133239,2032.01
2018321113235,1581.85
2017344103230,5341.94
201634558224,5301.79
201536458219,1871.93
2014361111216,4882.18

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

42 people have died during an encounter with Clayton County Police Department between 2004 and 2024, according to Mapping Police Violence.

42Deaths recorded
17.93Per 100,000 people policed
2004–2024Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot34
Vehicle8

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.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Clayton County Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2024. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm37
Knife or other cutting instrument2
Hands, fists or feet546
Other weapon86
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950050
19960012
19973161
19981012
19990001
20000001
20010021
20020011
20030031
20040020
20050001
20070010
20081020
20091010
20100010
20110010
20122011
20131000
20191012
20201006620
20213011112
2022901442
2023107114
20244112524

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.

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.

$425,341Original acquisition value
17Line items received
1994–2026Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Truck,Tank1$384,1302025-05-05
Image Intensifier,Night Vision6$39,7502008-07-19
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter9$1,2421996-06-26
Battery Compartment,Night Vision Viewer6$2192026-03-04

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 Clayton

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 GA0310100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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