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Sunbury Police Department

City agency in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States. This agency has never filed a crime return with the FBI.

ORI
PA0490500
Type
City
County
Northumberland
State
Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting
Never reported
Location
40.861, -76.7904

Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. Sunbury 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 9,511.

10Sworn officers
2Civilian staff
1.26Employees per 1,000 people
9,511Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251029,5111.26
2024819,4850.95
20221019,6241.14
2021919,2681.08
2020829,3061.07
20191549,3522.03
20181549,4692.01
20171549,5202.00
20161549,6071.98
20151119,7011.24
20141319,7391.44
20131319,8191.43

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 Sunbury Police Department between 2010 and 2010, according to Mapping Police Violence.

3Deaths recorded
31.54Per 100,000 people policed
2010–2010Period 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 Sunbury Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2022. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet18
Other weapon0
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950140
19960030
19970020
19990010
20000010
20020020
20090010
20110010
20150010
20160010
20220010

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 Northumberland

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 PA0490500. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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