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Scituate Police Department

City agency in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2004.

ORI
RI0041000
Type
City
County
Providence
State
Rhode Island (RI)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2004-07-01
Location
41.7316, -71.5474

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2024, covering a population of 10,691.

15Sworn officers
8Civilian staff
2.15Employees per 1,000 people
10,691Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202415810,6912.15
202316810,4572.30
202218610,3852.31
202117711,1482.15
202015910,7392.23
2019171110,7072.62
2018171110,6172.64
201717810,6312.35
201616710,5872.17
201515710,5432.09
201415710,4972.10
201317710,4432.30

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 Scituate Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2024. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet58
Other weapon12
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950081
19960030
199700101
19980061
19990080
20000041
20010012
20020010
20030020
20040010
20050001
20060010
20070020
20080010
20090021
20100010
20140020
20170010
20190012
20210010
20230010
20240012

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.

$54,601Original acquisition value
12Line items received
1994–2013Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Truck,Utility1$50,4582012-03-17
Telescope,Straight2$2,4792013-11-18
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter6$8281994-01-14
Sight,Reflex9$6782012-03-14
M84 Charging Handle4$972013-11-26
Receiver,Upper4$622013-11-26

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 Providence

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 RI0041000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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