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East Hempfield Township Police Department

City agency in Lancaster, 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
PA0362300
Type
City
County
Lancaster
State
Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting
No NIBRS start date
Location
40.042, -76.2502

No crime counts or clearance rates are published for this jurisdiction. East Hempfield Township 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 27,487.

35Sworn officers
4Civilian staff
1.42Employees per 1,000 people
27,487Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202535427,4871.42
202437427,1351.51
202334426,9621.41
202234426,6251.43
202134424,8351.53
202033424,8311.49
201933424,7501.49
201833424,6941.50
201732424,5041.47
201633424,4621.51
201531424,2871.44
201435424,0661.62

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 East Hempfield Township Police Department, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

YearMonths filedArrests
20267 of 12190
202512317
202412382
202311 of 12344
20225 of 12130
2021Not reported
202012361
201911 of 12398

“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 PA0362300.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for East Hempfield Township Police Department for 2010, 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
20102
20071
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2007–2010
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Other Religion2
Anti-Black or African American1

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 PA0362300.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with East Hempfield Township Police Department between 2001 and 2008, according to the two datasets named below.

2Deaths recorded
7.28Per 100,000 people policed
2001–2008Period 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.

Source: every one of these records comes from Fatal Encounters, which records deaths from 2000–2021. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled.

Assaults on officers

Officers of East Hempfield Township Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1999 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet14
Other weapon8
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
19990011
20000010
20020110
20030010
20040001
20050010
20070001
20090001
20100001
20110002
20120010
20130010
20150010
20160010
20180010
20190001
20240030
20250010

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 Lancaster

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 PA0362300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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