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Sarasota Police Department

City agency in Sarasota, Florida. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2024.

ORI: FL0580100
Type: City
County: Sarasota
State: Florida
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2024-01-01
Location: 27.1844, -82.3658

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 58,428.

187Sworn officers

61Civilian staff

4.24Employees per 1,000 people

58,428Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	187	61	58,428	4.24
2024	185	56	58,432	4.12
2023	183	54	58,506	4.05
2022	175	58	55,380	4.21
2021	178	52	59,569	3.86
2020	175	49	59,002	3.80
2019	175	60	58,470	4.02
2017	159	49	57,383	3.62
2016	163	46	55,732	3.75
2015	156	41	54,743	3.60
2014	156	41	53,620	3.67
2012	174	40	53,055	4.03

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

2 people have died during an encounter with Sarasota Police Department between 2014 and 2024, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded

3.42Per 100,000 people policed

2014–2024Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	2

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.

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.

$120,818Original acquisition value

2Line items received

2013–2013Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Truck,Utility	2	$120,818	2013-12-05

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 Sarasota

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

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement: SarasotaOther State Agency · never reported Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General: Sarasota CountyOther State Agency · never reported Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement: Sarasota CountyOther State Agency · never reported Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco: Sarasota CountyOther State Agency · never reported Florida Game Commission: Sarasota CountyOther State Agency · never reported Highway Patrol: Sarasota CountyState Police · reporting New College of FloridaUniversity or College · never reported North Port Police DepartmentCity · reporting Sarasota County SchoolsOther · never reported Sarasota County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting Sarasota-Manatee Airport AuthorityOther · never reported Venice Police DepartmentCity · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record FL0580100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.