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Polk County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Polk, Florida, United States. This agency has no NIBRS start date on record. The FBI file does carry arrest counts for it, shown below; Police Census holds no crime counts or clearance rates for it.
- ORI
- FL0530000
- Type
- County
- County
- Polk
- State
- Florida (FL)
- FBI reporting
- No NIBRS start date
- Location
- 27.9531, -81.6928
No crime counts or clearance rates are published for this jurisdiction. Polk County Sheriff's Office has no National Incident-Based Reporting System start date on record, and Police Census holds no crime or clearance figures for it. The FBI file does carry arrest counts for this agency; they are shown below.
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 541,319.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 774 | 1,116 | 541,319 | 3.49 |
| 2024 | 800 | 1,025 | 553,020 | 3.30 |
| 2023 | 735 | 1,002 | 518,855 | 3.35 |
| 2022 | 672 | 490 | 506,651 | 2.29 |
| 2021 | 671 | 510 | 484,989 | 2.44 |
| 2020 | 680 | 513 | 481,579 | 2.48 |
| 2019 | 652 | 518 | 467,711 | 2.50 |
| 2018 | 661 | 499 | 457,070 | 2.54 |
| 2017 | 651 | 497 | 443,961 | 2.59 |
| 2015 | 641 | 444 | 424,313 | 2.56 |
| 2014 | 643 | 1,396 | 416,667 | 4.89 |
| 2012 | 601 | 957 | 406,446 | 3.83 |
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.
Arrests
Arrests made by Polk County Sheriff's Office, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.
| Year | Months filed | Arrests |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Not yet in the FBI’s file | |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 |
| 2024 | 12 | 0 |
| 2023 | 12 | 0 |
| 2022 | 12 | 0 |
| 2021 | Not reported | |
| 2020 | Annual total only | 14,776 † |
| 2019 | Annual total only | 19,035 † |
† Annual total only. For 2019, 2020, the FBI’s file places this agency’s whole year of arrests in a single month. Police Census shows the annual total as filed and no month-by-month figures for those years: a monthly table would show one month’s spike above zeros in the other eleven, which the source does not support.
“Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting, so an absent agency reads “Not yet in the FBI’s file”: absent from the file so far, which is not the same claim as having filed nothing. A 0 is the figure as filed: the file does not distinguish an agency that made no arrests from one that did not submit them, and Police Census cannot either. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record FL0530000.
Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file
1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Polk County Sheriff's Office for 2022, as at 14 August 2026. The table lists every year from 1991 to 2025 for which the file has at least one.
| Year | Incidents appearing in the file |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 2003 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 |
| 2001 | 3 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 1999 | 4 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1992 | 2 |
| Bias motivation | Incidents |
|---|---|
| Anti-Black or African American | 13 |
| Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 8 |
| Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) | 4 |
| Anti-White | 4 |
| Anti-Multiple Races, Group | 3 |
| Anti-Gay (Male) | 2 |
| Anti-Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
| Anti-Protestant | 1 |
Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.
The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record FL0530000.
Deaths during encounters with this agency
52 people have died during an encounter with Polk County Sheriff's Office between 2001 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.
| Recorded cause | Deaths |
|---|---|
| Gunshot | 49 |
| Vehicle | 2 |
| Tasered | 1 |
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.
Source: these records come from Mapping Police Violence (35) and Fatal Encounters (17). Where both recorded the same death it is counted once. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how the two are combined. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).
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.
| Item | Quantity | Acquisition value | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mine Resistant Vehicle | 2 | $1.5m | 2016-02-29 |
| Sight,Reflex | 94 | $2,373 | 2016-09-13 |
| Illuminator,Integrated,Small Arms | 20 | $970 | 2016-04-22 |
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 Polk
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 FL0530000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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