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Richwood Police Department

City agency in Nicholas, West Virginia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2002.

ORI
WV0340100
Type
City
County
Nicholas
State
West Virginia (WV)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2002-01-01
Location
38.2914, -80.7975

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 1,594.

3Sworn officers
0Civilian staff
1.88Employees per 1,000 people
1,594Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025301,5941.88
2024301,6111.86
2023401,6302.45
2022301,6191.85
2021301,8221.65
2020301,8341.64
2019301,8681.61
2018301,8871.59
2017301,9401.55
2016201,9661.02
2015301,9891.51
2013302,0361.47

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 Richwood Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 1997. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet4
Other weapon1
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19950020
19960011
19970010

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.

Also policing Nicholas

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 WV0340100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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