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Mount Pleasant Police Department

City agency in Charleston, South Carolina. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1991.

ORI: SC0100300
Type: City
County: Charleston
State: South Carolina
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1991-01-01
Location: 32.8015, -79.8902

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 96,727.

159Sworn officers

24Civilian staff

1.89Employees per 1,000 people

96,727Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	159	24	96,727	1.89
2024	165	26	96,608	1.98
2023	158	26	96,320	1.91
2022	154	24	93,951	1.89
2020	158	17	94,704	1.85
2019	148	23	92,448	1.85
2018	158	25	89,733	2.04
2017	147	21	87,216	1.93
2016	146	21	84,277	1.98
2015	139	22	80,446	2.00
2014	135	24	76,702	2.07
2013	141	26	73,198	2.28

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.

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.

$824,030Original acquisition value

68Line items received

2009–2017Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle	1	$733,000	2014-02-13
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter	63	$76,870	2014-11-18
Taillight Assembly With Camera	2	$12,714	2017-08-31
Firing Device,Non-Lethal	6	$1,107	2015-03-25
Sight,Reflex	54	$339	2015-04-29

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 Charleston

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Charleston County Aviation AuthorityOther · reporting Charleston County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting College of CharlestonUniversity or College · reporting Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control: Charleston CountyOther State Agency · reporting Department of Natural Resources: Charleston CountyOther State Agency · reporting Folly Beach Police DepartmentCity · reporting Forestry Commission: Charleston CountyOther State Agency · reporting Highway Patrol: Charleston CountyState Police · reporting Isle of Palms Police DepartmentCity · reporting Medical University of South CarolinaUniversity or College · reporting South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: Charleston CountyOther State Agency · never reported State Ports AuthorityOther State Agency · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record SC0100300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.