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Des Moines Police Department
City agency in Polk, Warren, Iowa. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1991.
- ORI
- IA0770300
- Type
- City
- County
- Polk, Warren
- State
- Iowa
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 1991-01-01
- Location
- 41.6843, -93.5697
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 212,933.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 367 | 107 | 212,933 | 2.23 |
| 2024 | 356 | 143 | 209,245 | 2.38 |
| 2023 | 377 | 118 | 209,658 | 2.36 |
| 2022 | 339 | 138 | 210,376 | 2.27 |
| 2021 | 364 | 97 | 213,060 | 2.16 |
| 2020 | 367 | 97 | 215,290 | 2.16 |
| 2019 | 351 | 99 | 218,384 | 2.06 |
| 2017 | 350 | 105 | 217,277 | 2.09 |
| 2016 | 343 | 103 | 211,501 | 2.11 |
| 2015 | 360 | 99 | 210,403 | 2.18 |
| 2014 | 354 | 104 | 208,250 | 2.20 |
| 2013 | 366 | 109 | 207,391 | 2.29 |
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
16 people have died during an encounter with Des Moines Police Department between 2013 and 2026, according to Mapping Police Violence.
| Recorded cause | Deaths |
|---|---|
| Gunshot | 16 |
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 Polk, Warren
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 IA0770300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.