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Hillside Township Police Department

City agency in Union, New Jersey, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
NJ0200700
Type
City
County
Union
State
New Jersey (NJ)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
40.7015, -74.2293

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 22,751.

63Sworn officers
9Civilian staff
3.16Employees per 1,000 people
22,751Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202563922,7513.16
202465822,3513.27
202366821,9553.37
202266922,0263.41
2021631322,7993.33
2020641021,9953.36
2019671222,0243.59
2018671222,0783.58
201770922,1253.57
2016591121,9813.18
2015631222,0013.41
2014581221,9083.20

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 Hillside Township 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
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet143
Other weapon56
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950195
199600239
19970087
19980043
19990061
20000022
20010011
20020011
20030052
20040052
20050023
20060032
200700122
20090045
20100033
20110013
20120073
20130031
20140080
20150070
20160050
20170030
20190080
20200030
20210020
20230030
20240020
20250031

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 Union

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 NJ0200700. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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