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Spring Lake Police Department

City agency in Cumberland, North Carolina, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI
NC0260300
Type
City
County
Cumberland
State
North Carolina (NC)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2019-01-01
Location
35.0502, -78.8287

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 11,500.

23Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
2.09Employees per 1,000 people
11,500Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202523111,5002.09
202421111,4591.92
202321211,8211.95
202221211,6031.98
202123212,0282.08
202028312,0622.57
201927312,0692.49
201827312,7442.35
201725413,3692.17
201634313,4902.74
201531313,7262.48
201429313,3012.41

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 Spring Lake 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
Firearm4
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet97
Other weapon9
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199501103
19961061
19970051
19980080
19990050
20000050
20010080
20020050
20030050
20040020
20061050
20070031
20080030
20110050
20120041
20130001
20140030
20150010
20161000
20190020
20201010
20220011
20230040
20240010
20250050

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 Cumberland

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 NC0260300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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