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Eureka Police Department

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

ORI: CA0120300
Type: City
County: Humboldt
State: California
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2022-11-01
Location: 40.8005, -124.1689

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 25,154.

39Sworn officers

25Civilian staff

2.54Employees per 1,000 people

25,154Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	39	25	25,154	2.54
2024	38	32	25,485	2.75
2023	36	25	25,957	2.35
2022	37	25	26,465	2.34
2021	38	20	26,598	2.18
2020	46	25	26,656	2.66
2019	47	23	26,973	2.60
2018	46	22	27,174	2.50
2017	47	21	27,230	2.50
2016	47	24	26,981	2.63
2015	48	23	26,858	2.64
2014	50	30	26,843	2.98

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

3 people have died during an encounter with Eureka Police Department between 2014 and 2023, according to Mapping Police Violence.

3Deaths recorded

11.93Per 100,000 people policed

2014–2023Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	3

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

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.

Arcata Police DepartmentCity · reporting California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: HumboldtOther State Agency · reporting California State Parks: North Coast RedwoodsOther State Agency · reporting California State Polytechnic University: HumboldtUniversity or College · reporting Ferndale Police DepartmentCity · reporting Fortuna Police DepartmentCity · reporting Highway Patrol: Garberville Area OfficeState Police · reporting Highway Patrol: Humboldt Area OfficeState Police · reporting Humboldt County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting Rio Dell Police DepartmentCity · reporting Union Pacific Railroad: Humboldt CountyOther · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record CA0120300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.