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Altoona Police Department

City agency in Polk, Iowa. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1992.

ORI
IA0770800
Type
City
County
Polk
State
Iowa
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1992-01-01
Location
41.6457, -93.4646

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 23,376.

40Sworn officers
3Civilian staff
1.84Employees per 1,000 people
23,376Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202540323,3761.84
202441322,4221.96
202340322,4921.91
202240321,8301.97
202136320,0641.94
202035219,8041.87
201931219,4411.70
201831319,3611.76
201727318,5561.62
201626317,5031.66
201524316,5021.64
201424215,9241.63

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 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 IA0770800. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.