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Suffolk County Police Department

County agency in Suffolk, New York, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2026.

ORI: NY0510100
Type: County
County: Suffolk
State: New York (NY)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2026-01-01
Location: 40.9436, -72.6922

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 1,366,793.

2,681Sworn officers

506Civilian staff

2.33Employees per 1,000 people

1,366,793Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	2,681	506	1,366,793	2.33
2024	2,531	499	1,375,271	2.20
2023	2,564	527	1,350,304	2.29
2022	2,558	489	1,355,324	2.25
2021	2,331	481	1,348,354	2.09
2020	2,410	527	1,303,112	2.25
2019	2,518	534	1,309,143	2.33
2018	2,519	508	1,301,590	2.33
2017	2,536	532	1,333,228	2.30
2016	2,521	519	1,330,016	2.29
2015	2,440	526	1,340,120	2.21
2014	2,357	541	1,341,453	2.16

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

50 people have died during an encounter with Suffolk County Police Department between 2001 and 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.

50Deaths recorded

3.66Per 100,000 people policed

2001–2025Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	25
Vehicle	13
Tasered	4
Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument	2
Stabbed	1
Taser	1
Physical Restraint	1
Gunshot, Taser	1

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.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Suffolk County 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 reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	8
Knife or other cutting instrument	20
Hands, fists or feet	1,073
Other weapon	204

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	1	0	8	3
1996	0	1	47	11
1997	0	0	18	8
1998	0	0	14	5
2002	0	1	38	2
2003	0	2	42	9
2004	1	3	44	11
2005	0	2	48	11
2006	0	3	43	13
2007	0	1	45	6
2008	1	0	51	6
2009	1	1	45	9
2010	0	0	46	14
2011	0	1	53	12
2012	0	0	54	4
2013	1	0	56	8
2014	0	0	53	6
2015	1	1	51	9
2016	0	1	41	7
2017	0	0	50	10
2018	0	2	56	7
2019	0	0	59	10
2020	0	0	47	9
2022	0	1	43	10
2023	2	0	21	4

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.

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.

$1.5mOriginal acquisition value

20Line items received

2012–2021Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Truck,Utility	11	$649,211	2015-06-10
Truck,Ambulance	6	$470,994	2018-07-18
Mk3mod0	1	$240,191	2013-09-13
Unmanned Vehicle,Ground	1	$77,060	2021-01-14
Only Complete Combat/Assault/Tactical Wheeled Vehicles	1	$44,994	2020-04-03

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.

Federal oversight

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has taken the following action against Suffolk County Police Department under 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The case type and document titles below are DOJ’s own words, reproduced without interpretation — see all federal oversight matters on /oversight.

DOJ’s case type: Closed

Source: Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section.

Also policing Suffolk

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 NY0510100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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