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Chambersburg Police Department

City agency in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. This agency has no NIBRS start date on record. The FBI file does carry arrest counts for it, shown below; Police Census holds no crime counts or clearance rates for it.

ORI
PA0280100
Type
City
County
Franklin
State
Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting
No NIBRS start date
Location
39.9353, -77.6596

No crime counts or clearance rates are published for this jurisdiction. Chambersburg Police Department has no National Incident-Based Reporting System start date on record, and Police Census holds no crime or clearance figures for it. The FBI file does carry arrest counts for this agency; they are shown below.

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 23,343.

34Sworn officers
4Civilian staff
1.63Employees per 1,000 people
23,343Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202534423,3431.63
202435422,3661.74
202335422,3201.75
202235422,3831.74
202135321,3341.78
202031321,2471.60
201932321,1311.66
201834320,9621.77
201733320,7571.73
201633320,7701.73
201535320,6791.84
201434220,5611.75

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.

Arrests

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

YearMonths filedArrests
20267 of 12424
202512617
202412689
202311 of 12618
20228 of 12362
20211 of 1239
2020121,185
2019121,194

“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. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record PA0280100.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Chambersburg Police Department for 1997, 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
19971
19951
19933
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1993–1997
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American5

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 PA0280100.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

1 person has died during an encounter with Chambersburg Police Department between 2016 and 2016, according to the two datasets named below.

1Deaths recorded
4.28Per 100,000 people policed
2016–2016Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot1

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.

Source: every one of these records comes from Mapping Police Violence, which records deaths from 2013–2026. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).

Assaults on officers

Officers of Chambersburg Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2010. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm1
Knife or other cutting instrument2
Hands, fists or feet26
Other weapon11
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19951021
19960030
19980032
19990023
20000110
20010012
20020020
20050021
20060010
20070011
20080010
20090071
20100100

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Also policing Franklin

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 PA0280100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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