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The Dalles Police Department

City agency in Wasco, Oregon, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2017.

ORI
OR0330100
Type
City
County
Wasco
State
Oregon (OR)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2017-08-01
Location
45.6012, -121.1838

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 15,860.

26Sworn officers
3Civilian staff
1.83Employees per 1,000 people
15,860Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202526315,8601.83
202426615,7122.04
202324515,8971.82
202225416,1001.80
202122415,6431.66
202025315,8491.77
201923315,7521.65
201823415,7401.72
201723315,6701.66
201622315,4131.62
201523215,2101.64
201423215,2041.64

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

3 people have died during an encounter with The Dalles Police Department between 2012 and 2019, according to Mapping Police Violence.

3Deaths recorded
18.92Per 100,000 people policed
2012–2019Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot3

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 The Dalles 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 instrument0
Hands, fists or feet77
Other weapon12
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950001
19970020
19980011
19990051
20000010
20010030
20020020
20030030
20060050
20070030
20080020
20090020
20100010
20120010
20130030
20140021
20150020
20160020
20180041
20190040
20200030
20210090
20220041
20230012
20240001
202500123

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.

$708,563Original acquisition value
5Line items received
2019–2022Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle1$689,0002019-12-03
Unmanned Vehicle,Ground1$10,0002022-01-28
Illuminator,Infrared5$7,1932019-08-30
Sight Unit2$2,3702019-05-29

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.

Also policing Wasco

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 OR0330100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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