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Matthews Police Department

City agency in Mecklenburg, North Carolina. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI: NC0600700
Type: City
County: Mecklenburg
State: North Carolina
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2019-01-01
Location: 35.1239, -80.7227

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 32,715.

56Sworn officers

13Civilian staff

2.11Employees per 1,000 people

32,715Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	56	13	32,715	2.11
2024	58	18	31,422	2.42
2023	60	13	30,433	2.40
2022	53	11	29,739	2.15
2021	64	16	34,438	2.32
2020	58	16	33,860	2.19
2019	58	11	33,372	2.07
2018	59	20	32,873	2.40
2017	55	15	32,255	2.17
2016	55	13	31,401	2.17
2015	57	13	30,723	2.28
2014	58	13	29,927	2.37

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 Mecklenburg

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

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NC0600700. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.