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Ville Platte Police Department

City agency in Evangeline, Louisiana, United States. This agency has never filed a crime return with the FBI.

ORI
LA0200300
Type
City
County
Evangeline
State
Louisiana (LA)
FBI reporting
Never reported
Location
30.7207, -92.4041

Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. Ville Platte Police Department 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 6,106.

11Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
1.97Employees per 1,000 people
6,106Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251116,1061.97
20241106,1211.80
2023806,2071.29
20221216,3872.04
20211317,0102.00
20201776,9913.43
20182517,1303.65
201729197,2446.63
201631157,2346.36
20152147,2553.45
20102657,4304.17
20092708,1493.31

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 Ville Platte Police Department between 2014 and 2014, according to Mapping Police Violence.

1Deaths recorded
16.38Per 100,000 people policed
2014–2014Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Drug overdose1

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.

Federal oversight

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has taken the following action against Ville Platte Police Department under 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The case type and document titles below are DOJ’s own words, reproduced without interpretation — see all federal oversight matters on /oversight.

Source: Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section.

Also policing Evangeline

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 LA0200300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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