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Wilmington Police Department

City agency in New Hanover, North Carolina. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI: NC0650200
Type: City
County: New Hanover
State: North Carolina
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2019-01-01
Location: 34.1775, -77.8714

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 127,752.

225Sworn officers

93Civilian staff

2.49Employees per 1,000 people

127,752Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	225	93	127,752	2.49
2024	243	84	125,101	2.61
2023	249	91	122,675	2.77
2022	235	110	119,159	2.90
2021	243	78	126,759	2.53
2020	253	74	125,794	2.60
2019	267	69	124,750	2.69
2018	268	65	120,920	2.75
2017	270	75	119,422	2.89
2016	260	71	117,852	2.81
2015	258	67	115,434	2.82
2014	256	56	113,418	2.75

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

7 people have died during an encounter with Wilmington Police Department between 2013 and 2026, according to Mapping Police Violence.

7Deaths recorded

5.48Per 100,000 people policed

2013–2026Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	7

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.

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.

$1.6mOriginal acquisition value

7Line items received

1999–2023Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle	2	$1.3m	2019-08-05
Af Medium Robot Eod	1	$231,603	2022-08-30
Tool Kit,Improvised Explosive Devices	3	$4,633	2023-09-06
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter	3	$414	1999-03-17

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 New Hanover

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Carolina Beach Police DepartmentCity · reporting Kure Beach Police DepartmentCity · never reported New Hanover County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting North Carolina State Port Authority: Division 1Other · reporting State Park Rangers: Carolina BeachOther State Agency · reporting State Park Rangers: Fort FisherOther State Agency · reporting University of North Carolina: WilmingtonUniversity or College · reporting Wrightsville Beach Police DepartmentCity · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NC0650200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.