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Alturas Police Department

City agency in Modoc, California. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2022.

ORI: CA0250100
Type: City
County: Modoc
State: California
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2022-07-01
Location: 41.4834, -120.5435

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 2,640.

6Sworn officers

2Civilian staff

3.03Employees per 1,000 people

2,640Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	6	2	2,640	3.03
2024	6	2	2,640	3.03
2023	7	1	2,637	3.03
2022	5	1	2,692	2.23
2021	8	1	2,514	3.58
2020	8	0	2,535	3.16
2019	7	1	2,471	3.24
2018	8	1	2,501	3.60
2017	7	0	2,491	2.81
2016	7	0	2,549	2.75
2015	5	1	2,566	2.34
2014	8	1	2,615	3.44

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.

$94,168Original acquisition value

11Line items received

2000–2011Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Truck,Utility	1	$89,900	2011-01-27
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter	8	$3,992	2002-10-07
Rifle,7.62 Millimeter	2	$276	2000-08-14

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 Modoc

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

Highway Patrol: Alturas Area OfficeState Police · reporting Modoc County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting Union Pacific Railroad: Modoc CountyOther · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record CA0250100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.