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West Chester Police Department

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

ORI
PA0151300
Type
City
County
Chester
State
Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting
Never reported
Location
39.9633, -75.5991

Nothing is published about crime in this jurisdiction. West Chester 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 23,951.

44Sworn officers
11Civilian staff
2.30Employees per 1,000 people
23,951Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025441123,9512.30
202442920,0042.55
2023441019,9812.70
2022431118,6902.89
2021431120,2142.67
2020441320,2112.82
2019471720,2553.16
2018471720,2993.15
2017471320,1832.97
2016471320,1292.98
2015471319,3743.10
2014471319,0953.14

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 West Chester Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2019. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm3
Knife or other cutting instrument2
Hands, fists or feet260
Other weapon30
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19951171
19960092
19971020
19980010
19990020
200000111
200110215
200200143
200300142
200400181
200501151
200600213
200700202
200800121
200900120
201000151
201100102
201200130
20130090
20140040
20150092
20160060
20170041
20180061
20190051

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 Chester

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 PA0151300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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