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Charles Town Police Department

City agency in Jefferson, West Virginia. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2000.

ORI: WV0190100
Type: City
County: Jefferson
State: West Virginia
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2000-01-01
Location: 39.3074, -77.8632

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 9,588.

16Sworn officers

4Civilian staff

2.09Employees per 1,000 people

9,588Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	16	4	9,588	2.09
2024	16	4	8,103	2.47
2023	16	3	7,453	2.55
2022	14	2	6,524	2.45
2021	14	3	6,098	2.79
2020	16	3	6,123	3.10
2019	16	3	6,171	3.08
2018	16	2	6,060	2.97
2017	15	2	6,062	2.80
2016	14	2	6,030	2.65
2015	14	1	5,816	2.58
2013	15	1	5,421	2.95

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.

Also policing Jefferson

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

Department of Natural Resources: Jefferson CountyOther State Agency · reporting Harpers Ferry/Bolivar Police DepartmentCity · reporting Jefferson County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting Ranson Police DepartmentCity · reporting Shepherd UniversityUniversity or College · reporting Shepherdstown Police DepartmentCity · reporting State Fire Marshal: Jefferson CountyOther State Agency · reporting State Police: KearneysvilleState Police · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record WV0190100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.