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West Chester Police Department

City agency in Chester, 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: PA0151300
Type: City
County: Chester
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
FBI reporting: No NIBRS start date
Location: 39.9633, -75.5991

No crime counts or clearance rates are published for this jurisdiction. West Chester 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 23,951.

44Sworn officers

11Civilian staff

2.30Employees per 1,000 people

23,951Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	44	11	23,951	2.30
2024	42	9	20,004	2.55
2023	44	10	19,981	2.70
2022	43	11	18,690	2.89
2021	43	11	20,214	2.67
2020	44	13	20,211	2.82
2019	47	17	20,255	3.16
2018	47	17	20,299	3.15
2017	47	13	20,183	2.97
2016	47	13	20,129	2.98
2015	47	13	19,374	3.10
2014	47	13	19,095	3.14

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

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	7 of 12	548
2025	12	1,120
2024	12	1,175
2023	10 of 12	1,116
2022	6 of 12	592
2021	Not reported
2020	12	716
2019	11 of 12	1,375

“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 PA0151300.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for West Chester Police Department for 1995, 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
Year	Incidents appearing in the file
1995	1
1994	1
1993	3
1991	1

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–1995
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	3
Anti-White	3

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 PA0151300.

Assaults on officers

Officers of West Chester Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2019. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	3
Knife or other cutting instrument	2
Hands, fists or feet	260
Other weapon	30

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	1	1	7	1
1996	0	0	9	2
1997	1	0	2	0
1998	0	0	1	0
1999	0	0	2	0
2000	0	0	11	1
2001	1	0	21	5
2002	0	0	14	3
2003	0	0	14	2
2004	0	0	18	1
2005	0	1	15	1
2006	0	0	21	3
2007	0	0	20	2
2008	0	0	12	1
2009	0	0	12	0
2010	0	0	15	1
2011	0	0	10	2
2012	0	0	13	0
2013	0	0	9	0
2014	0	0	4	0
2015	0	0	9	2
2016	0	0	6	0
2017	0	0	4	1
2018	0	0	6	1
2019	0	0	5	1

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 Chester

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 PA0151300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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