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Washington Township Police Department, Bergen County

City agency in Bergen, New Jersey, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
NJ0026600
Type
City
County
Bergen
State
New Jersey (NJ)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
40.987, -74.0645

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 9,467.

26Sworn officers
5Civilian staff
3.27Employees per 1,000 people
9,467Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20252659,4673.27
20242659,4643.28
20232659,2543.35
20222459,2253.14
20212159,5302.73
20202159,1712.84
20192059,2192.71
20181909,2992.04
20172029,4322.33
20162029,3812.35
20152029,3412.36
20142009,2962.15

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.

Crime and clearances

Offences and clearances filed by Washington Township Police Department, Bergen County in its monthly returns to the FBI, added up by calendar year, 2019–2026. Violent crime and property crime are the FBI’s two categories. These are the counts as filed: Police Census does not turn them into a rate.

Violent crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20264 of 1200—
202512100.0%
202411 of 122150.0%
202312300.0%
202211 of 12100.0%
2021123266.7%
20201233100.0%
20191211100.0%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20264 of 12300.0%
2025121417.1%
202411 of 1214214.3%
2023122200.0%
202211 of 122200.0%
20211224312.5%
2020121915.3%
2019121915.3%

Reading the table. “Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A 0 is a figure the agency filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting: that year is not complete in the file we read, so where this agency has no 2026 figures the table says “Not yet in the FBI’s file” rather than “Not reported”. We can see that the agency is absent from the file so far; we cannot tell whether it has not filed or has not yet been published, and we do not guess. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months the agency filed, so it is not a full-year total. A dash in the last column means the percentage cannot be worked out: it needs both figures, and at least one offence.

“Cleared” is the FBI file’s clearance count for the year. Clearances in a year can relate to offences from earlier years, so the percentage is not the share of that year’s offences that were solved, and it can exceed 100%. Figures are not adjusted: a year far below the agency’s neighbouring years, or a 0 beside many offences, may reflect what was submitted rather than what happened. The file does not say which, and Police Census does not guess.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, summarized data for agency record NJ0026600.

Arrests

Arrests made by Washington Township Police Department, Bergen County, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

YearMonths filedArrests
20264 of 126
2025126
202411 of 128
2023122
202211 of 120
20211214
20201288
201912115

“Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting, so an absent agency reads “Not yet in the FBI’s file”: absent from the file so far, which is not the same claim as having filed nothing. A 0 is the figure as filed: the file does not distinguish an agency that made no arrests from one that did not submit them, and Police Census cannot either. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record NJ0026600.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Washington Township Police Department, Bergen County for 2020, as at 14 August 2026. The table lists every year from 1991 to 2025 for which the file has at least one.

Incidents appearing in the FBI’s file, as at 14 August 2026
YearIncidents appearing in the file
20201
20191
20061
20051
20041
20002
19991
19982
19971
19962
19954
19942
19935
19925
19911
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2020
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Jewish17
Anti-Black or African American7
Anti-Asian2
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry2
Anti-Gay (Male)1
Anti-White1

Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.

The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record NJ0026600.

Also policing Bergen

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 NJ0026600. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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