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Mount Holly Police Department

City agency in Gaston, North Carolina, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2020.

ORI
NC0360900
Type
City
County
Gaston
State
North Carolina (NC)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2020-02-01
Location
35.2933, -81.1773

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 18,971.

39Sworn officers
9Civilian staff
2.53Employees per 1,000 people
18,971Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202539918,9712.53
2024381118,5812.64
202334918,3772.34
202232818,1772.20
202133816,7202.45
202032916,5752.47
201932816,4752.43
201831615,9402.32
201731914,6402.73
201631914,2842.80
201531914,1092.84
201431913,9682.86

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

3 people have died during an encounter with Mount Holly Police Department between 2005 and 2019, according to Mapping Police Violence.

3Deaths recorded
15.81Per 100,000 people policed
2005–2019Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot3

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 Mount Holly Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm1
Knife or other cutting instrument4
Hands, fists or feet117
Other weapon9
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950162
19960140
19970031
19980050
19990040
20000070
20020030
20030051
20040040
20050041
20060060
20070040
20080080
20090040
20100040
20110080
20120060
20131030
20140020
20160030
20170020
20180120
20210040
20220051
20230140
20240060
20250013

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 Gaston

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 NC0360900. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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