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Bolivar Police Department

City agency in Polk, Missouri, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI
MO0840100
Type
City
County
Polk
State
Missouri (MO)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2019-02-01
Location
37.6168, -93.4008

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 11,743.

23Sworn officers
7Civilian staff
2.55Employees per 1,000 people
11,743Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202523711,7432.55
202420611,5232.26
202318711,3212.21
202218711,1292.25
201918811,1292.34
201821610,9662.46
201722710,8732.67
201621610,7902.50
201521410,6302.35
201420510,5232.38
201319410,4082.21
201215310,3531.74

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 Bolivar Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1996 and 2016. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument3
Hands, fists or feet31
Other weapon4
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19960010
19970120
19980050
19990010
20000020
20010001
20020020
20030050
20050022
20060140
20070020
20150041
20160110

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 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 MO0840100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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