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Hope Police Department

City agency in Hempstead, Arkansas. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2004.

ORI: AR0290100
Type: City
County: Hempstead
State: Arkansas
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2004-07-01
Location: 33.7286, -93.6658

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 8,355.

20Sworn officers

12Civilian staff

3.83Employees per 1,000 people

8,355Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	20	12	8,355	3.83
2024	24	12	8,445	4.26
2023	22	11	8,489	3.89
2022	23	10	8,535	3.87
2021	22	11	9,373	3.52
2020	25	10	9,543	3.67
2019	25	11	9,666	3.72
2018	24	12	9,744	3.69
2017	24	12	9,859	3.65
2016	25	6	9,852	3.15
2015	25	12	9,986	3.71
2014	25	12	10,100	3.66

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.

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.

$658,000Original acquisition value

1Line items received

2016–2016Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle	1	$658,000	2016-11-09

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 Hempstead

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

Hempstead County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting State Park: Historic Washington State ParkOther State Agency · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record AR0290100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.