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Vermilion Police Department

City agency in Erie, Lorain, Ohio, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2014.

ORI
OH0220400
Type
City
County
Erie, Lorain
State
Ohio (OH)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2014-01-01
Location
41.554, -82.5259

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 10,752.

18Sworn officers
5Civilian staff
2.14Employees per 1,000 people
10,752Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202518510,7522.14
202218510,7112.15
201217510,5682.08
201116510,6021.98
201018510,5942.17
200919510,7352.24
200818510,7562.14
200718510,8922.11
200618511,0132.09
200519510,9762.19
200419510,9622.19
200319510,8812.21

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 Vermilion Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1996 and 2010. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet29
Other weapon2
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19960020
19980020
19990020
20000010
20010021
20020010
20030020
20040021
20050020
20060020
20070040
20080050
20090010
20100010

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.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record OH0220400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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