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Sierra County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Sierra, New Mexico. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2020.

ORI
NM0270000
Type
County
County
Sierra
State
New Mexico
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2020-11-01
Location
33.1195, -107.1882

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 5,387.

13Sworn officers
4Civilian staff
3.16Employees per 1,000 people
5,387Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251345,3873.16
20241345,5703.05
20231135,4472.57
20221335,4122.96
20201125,0122.59
20191425,0363.18
20181425,1353.12
20171225,1282.73
20161425,0943.14
20151325,1152.93
20141125,2482.48
20121525,5013.09

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

1 person has died during an encounter with Sierra County Sheriff's Office between 2015 and 2015, according to Mapping Police Violence.

1Deaths recorded
18.56Per 100,000 people policed
20152015Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot1

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.

Also policing Sierra

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 NM0270000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.