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Staunton Police Department

City agency in Staunton City, Virginia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1998.

ORI
VA1260000
Type
City
County
Staunton City
State
Virginia (VA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1998-06-01
Location
38.1581, -79.0615

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 26,572.

46Sworn officers
15Civilian staff
2.30Employees per 1,000 people
26,572Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025461526,5722.30
2024501626,1512.52
2023501525,9722.50
2022461525,6112.38
2021461525,3102.41
2020481525,0482.52
2019481624,9312.57
2018501324,5842.56
2017491324,4232.54
2016461624,3992.54
2015481624,6542.60
2014481624,4992.61

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 Staunton 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
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet140
Other weapon19
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199500261
199600200
199700210
199800131
19990030
20000042
20010062
20020142
20030071
20040072
20110010
20130022
20140010
20170010
20180011
20200032
20210012
20220031
20230050
20240020
20250090

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.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record VA1260000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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