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Oakesdale Police Department
City agency in Whitman, Washington, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2009.
- ORI
- WA0381400
- Type
- City
- County
- Whitman
- State
- Washington (WA)
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 2009-09-01
- Location
- 46.9033, -117.523
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 382.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 382 | 2.62 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 392 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 394 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 395 | 0.00 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 425 | 0.00 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 441 | 0.00 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 443 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 445 | 0.00 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 389 | 2.57 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 379 | 2.64 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 402 | 2.49 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 409 | 2.44 |
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.
Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file
1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Oakesdale Police Department for 1997, as at 14 August 2026.
| Year | Incidents appearing in the file |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 |
| Bias motivation | Incidents |
|---|---|
| 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 WA0381400.
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 “Oakesdale Police Department” and answers:
Yes
Last updated, as the AGO’s register shows it: 2022-12-16. That is the date on the register, not a date Police Census checked the policy, and the answer may have changed since.
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 Whitman
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 WA0381400. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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