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Dane County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Dane, Wisconsin. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2004.

ORI: WI0130000
Type: County
County: Dane
State: Wisconsin
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2004-01-01
Location: 43.0741, -89.3809

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 79,497.

417Sworn officers

117Civilian staff

6.72Employees per 1,000 people

79,497Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	417	117	79,497	6.72
2024	435	118	82,807	6.68
2023	426	115	85,648	6.32
2022	414	111	84,362	6.22
2021	435	108	91,436	5.94
2020	470	113	85,703	6.80
2019	464	107	85,360	6.69
2018	465	108	86,184	6.65
2017	449	104	84,919	6.51
2016	435	98	83,084	6.42
2015	444	100	83,156	6.54
2014	438	93	84,381	6.29

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

2 people have died during an encounter with Dane County Sheriff's Office between 2014 and 2022, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded

2.52Per 100,000 people policed

2014–2022Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	2

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.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$36,341Original acquisition value

8Line items received

2005–2018Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Image Intensifier,Night Vision	4	$25,801	2009-06-11
Night Vision Goggle	2	$8,600	2005-10-13
Illuminator,Integrated,Small Arms	42	$1,940	2018-01-16

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Also policing Dane

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 WI0130000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.