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Arcata Police Department

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

ORI: CA0120100
Type: City
County: Humboldt
State: California
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2022-03-01
Location: 40.8674, -124.0851

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 18,741.

25Sworn officers

13Civilian staff

2.03Employees per 1,000 people

18,741Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	25	13	18,741	2.03
2024	27	14	19,107	2.15
2023	23	13	18,464	1.95
2022	22	13	19,144	1.83
2021	20	13	18,081	1.83
2020	25	13	18,516	2.05
2019	29	14	18,332	2.35
2018	25	12	18,073	2.05
2017	23	13	18,054	1.99
2016	25	13	17,913	2.12
2015	25	10	17,789	1.97
2014	26	12	17,748	2.14

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 Humboldt

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

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record CA0120100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.