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Placentia Police Department

City agency in Orange, California. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
CA0301600
Type
City
County
Orange
State
California
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-02-01
Location
33.8711, -117.8628

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 53,580.

47Sworn officers
21Civilian staff
1.27Employees per 1,000 people
53,580Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025472153,5801.27
2024511752,0341.31
2023492052,0691.33
2022441850,7641.22
2021451251,5791.11
2020482051,2601.33
2019432451,7561.29
2018412152,3241.18
2017452452,4371.32
2016452352,8001.29
2015461652,7531.18
2014451952,5131.22

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

1 person has died during an encounter with Placentia Police Department between 2021 and 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence.

1Deaths recorded
1.87Per 100,000 people policed
20212021Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot1

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 Orange

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 CA0301600. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.