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Gig Harbor Police Department

City agency in Pierce, Washington, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2007.

ORI: WA0271800
Type: City
County: Pierce
State: Washington (WA)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2007-01-01
Location: 47.3233, -122.5855

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 12,786.

22Sworn officers

3Civilian staff

1.96Employees per 1,000 people

12,786Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	22	3	12,786	1.96
2024	22	3	12,785	1.96
2023	20	3	12,693	1.81
2022	21	2	12,301	1.87
2021	20	2	11,345	1.94
2020	18	2	11,216	1.78
2019	19	2	10,931	1.92
2018	18	2	9,909	2.02
2017	19	2	9,494	2.21
2016	16	2	9,124	1.97
2015	17	3	8,724	2.29
2014	15	2	7,978	2.13

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 Gig Harbor Police Department 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
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	7 of 12	7	10	142.9%
2025	12	36	17	47.2%
2024	12	28	6	21.4%
2023	12	29	14	48.3%
2022	12	30	19	63.3%
2021	12	20	7	35.0%
2020	12	18	9	50.0%
2019	12	14	6	42.9%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	7 of 12	135	54	40.0%
2025	12	300	85	28.3%
2024	12	381	108	28.3%
2023	12	467	109	23.3%
2022	12	746	101	13.5%
2021	12	517	97	18.8%
2020	12	457	105	23.0%
2019	12	447	114	25.5%

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 WA0271800.

Arrests

Arrests made by Gig Harbor 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	213
2025	12	264
2024	12	267
2023	12	264
2022	12	259
2021	12	272
2020	12	323
2019	12	386

“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 WA0271800.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Gig Harbor Police Department for 2024, 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
2024	1
2021	1
2006	1
2005	2
1998	1
1994	1

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1994–2024
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-Black or African American	3
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)	1
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)	1
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	1
Anti-Other Religion	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 WA0271800.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Gig Harbor Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2014 and 2022. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	0
Knife or other cutting instrument	0
Hands, fists or feet	3
Other weapon	9

Year	Hands, fists, feet	Other
2014	0	1
2015	1	0
2016	1	0
2017	0	1
2018	0	1
2019	0	1
2020	1	0
2021	0	2
2022	0	3

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.

Washington use-of-force policy

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office publishes a register of law enforcement agencies. Its question is whether the agency’s use-of-force policy is consistent with the AGO model policy. The register lists this agency as “Gig Harbor Police Department” and answers:

Yes

Last updated, as the AGO’s register shows it: 2022-12-01. That is the date on the register, not a date Police Census checked the policy, and the answer may have changed since.

Policy document linked by the AGO

Source: Washington Attorney General, law enforcement use of force and de-escalation, read on 2026-10-08. The register’s entries are matched to FBI agency records by name; Police Census attaches one only where exactly one agency fits.

Also policing Pierce

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 WA0271800. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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