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Meridian Police Department

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

ORI
ID0010300
Type
City
County
Ada
State
Idaho
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1992-01-01
Location
43.4515, -116.2444

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 145,320.

109Sworn officers
42Civilian staff
1.04Employees per 1,000 people
145,320Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202510942145,3201.04
202411644140,3531.14
202312742135,2391.25
202213238132,5221.28
202112037126,7441.24
202012430119,2031.29
201911233111,1961.30
201810530103,7741.30
2017982599,2411.24
2016922394,1131.22
2015902291,0771.23
2014882285,7331.28

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 Meridian Police Department between 2018 and 2018, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
1.38Per 100,000 people policed
20182018Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

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 Ada

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 ID0010300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.