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Lancaster County Sheriff's Office
County 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
- PA0360000
- Type
- County
- 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. Lancaster County Sheriff's Office 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.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | 9 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 54 | 9 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 48 | 9 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 45 | 6 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 47 | 9 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 55 | 9 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 48 | 7 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 56 | 9 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 66 | 6 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 48 | 6 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 50 | 8 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 50 | 5 | 0 | — |
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 Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.
| Year | Months filed | Arrests |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 of 12 | 35 |
| 2025 | 12 | 48 |
| 2024 | 12 | 46 |
| 2023 | 10 of 12 | 26 |
| 2022 | 6 of 12 | 21 |
| 2021 | Not reported | |
| 2020 | 12 | 15 |
| 2019 | 12 | 41 |
“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 PA0360000.
Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file
1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Lancaster County Sheriff's Office for 2013, as at 14 August 2026.
| Year | Incidents appearing in the file |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 |
| Bias motivation | Incidents |
|---|---|
| Anti-Black or African American | 1 |
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 PA0360000.
Deaths during encounters with this agency
1 person has died during an encounter with Lancaster County Sheriff's Office between 2020 and 2020, according to the two datasets named below.
| Recorded cause | Deaths |
|---|---|
| Gunshot | 1 |
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.
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 PA0360000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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