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Swansea Police Department

City agency in Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1995.

ORI: MA0031800
Type: City
County: Bristol
State: Massachusetts (MA)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1995-01-01
Location: 41.7465, -71.1943

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 17,582.

33Sworn officers

6Civilian staff

2.22Employees per 1,000 people

17,582Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	33	6	17,582	2.22
2024	32	6	17,772	2.14
2023	33	6	17,437	2.24
2022	33	6	17,453	2.23
2021	33	6	17,257	2.26
2020	34	5	16,854	2.31
2019	34	6	16,681	2.40
2018	31	6	16,619	2.23
2017	31	6	16,597	2.23
2016	30	6	16,418	2.19
2015	30	6	16,225	2.22
2014	32	6	16,177	2.35

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 Swansea Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2015 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	1
Knife or other cutting instrument	0
Hands, fists or feet	27
Other weapon	4

Year	Firearm	Hands, fists, feet	Other
2015	0	1	0
2016	0	8	0
2017	0	8	0
2018	0	1	1
2019	0	2	0
2021	0	1	2
2022	0	1	0
2023	0	2	1
2024	0	1	0
2025	1	2	0

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.

$314,094Original acquisition value

10Line items received

2006–2014Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Truck,Utility	3	$215,154	2014-03-11
Enclosure Assembly	1	$95,946	2012-07-03
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter	6	$2,994	2006-06-10

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 Bristol

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 MA0031800. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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