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Edinburg Police Department

City agency in Hidalgo, Texas, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
TX1080400
Type
City
County
Hidalgo
State
Texas (TX)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
26.3964, -98.181

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 110,822.

171Sworn officers
63Civilian staff
2.11Employees per 1,000 people
110,822Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202517163110,8222.11
202418367107,5522.32
202317768106,1372.31
202216377104,9872.29
202117159104,6042.20
202015659103,4912.08
201916060100,8962.18
20171615689,5952.42
20161415486,5352.25
20151435585,1372.33
20131254682,2712.08
20111244878,7222.18

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

10 people have died during an encounter with Edinburg Police Department between 2009 and 2026, according to Mapping Police Violence.

10Deaths recorded
9.02Per 100,000 people policed
2009–2026Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot8
Asphyxiated1
Asphyxiated/Restrained1

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 Edinburg 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
Firearm11
Knife or other cutting instrument9
Hands, fists or feet278
Other weapon54
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950030
19960120
19970030
19980031
19990121
20000020
20010062
20020042
20030051
20041150
200501124
20060080
20071171
20081092
20091242
20101060
20110043
201200113
201300153
20142041
201500111
20160092
20170171
201800112
20190091
20200051
202100140
202230332
2023002711
202410117
202501260

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.

$293,887Original acquisition value
114Line items received
1998–2019Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Truck,Ambulance2$192,9322019-08-22
Truck,Utility1$49,8971998-08-07
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter96$49,2602014-10-28
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter12$1,6562002-11-13
Range Finder,Laser1$1002019-05-14
Spectacles,Ballistic And Laser Protective160$422019-06-07

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 Hidalgo

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 TX1080400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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