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Tazewell Police Department

City agency in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1996.

ORI
VA0920400
Type
City
County
Tazewell
State
Virginia (VA)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1996-11-01
Location
37.1254, -81.5629

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 4,257.

15Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
3.76Employees per 1,000 people
4,257Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251514,2573.76
20241514,2823.74
20231314,3793.20
20221514,3743.66
20211514,0653.94
20201614,0884.16
20191514,1403.86
20181324,1853.58
20171324,3203.47
20161524,3783.88
20151324,4393.38
20141424,5213.54

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 Tazewell 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 instrument0
Hands, fists or feet58
Other weapon27
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950020
19960011
19970001
19980033
19990073
20000075
20010020
20020041
20050001
20060022
20110011
20120010
20130011
20140020
20160020
20170010
20190030
20200010
20210014
20220042
20230031
20240051
20250050

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.

$21,285Original acquisition value
9Line items received
2017–2020Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Tractor, Full Tracked, Low Speed1$10,0002020-07-28
Unmanned Vehicle,Ground1$10,0002019-06-12
Sight,Reflex17$6782017-04-27
Training Set,Weapon And Ammunition16$3852019-02-07
Barrel And Front Sight Assembly15$1202017-08-10
Receiver,Cartridge15$702018-03-16
Magazine,Cartridge46$322019-04-25

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 Tazewell

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 VA0920400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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