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Plainfield Police Department

City agency in Union, New Jersey, United States. This agency has never filed a crime return with the FBI.

ORI
NJ0201200
Type
City
County
Union
State
New Jersey (NJ)
FBI reporting
Never reported
Location
40.6186, -74.4189

Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. Plainfield Police Department has no National Incident-Based Reporting System start date on record, which means no crime counts, clearance rates or arrest figures for this agency reach the national statistics. Reporting is voluntary in the United States.

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 56,992.

128Sworn officers
22Civilian staff
2.63Employees per 1,000 people
56,992Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251282256,9922.63
20241282255,9752.68
20231192554,7912.63
20221392855,4943.01
20211222452,1632.80
20201232150,3332.86
20191212150,5762.81
20181252850,8203.01
20171202850,9832.90
20161262651,2212.97
20151272751,1323.01
20141352250,8393.09

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 Plainfield Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2023. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm10
Knife or other cutting instrument3
Hands, fists or feet271
Other weapon38
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199510132
199610101
199720154
19982074
199900191
200000110
200110233
200200140
200302162
200400122
200510120
200610132
200700133
200800134
200900101
201011122
201100110
201200131
20130071
20140042
20150061
20160020
20180010
20190010
20200011
20210011
20220050
20230060

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 NJ0201200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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