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Onalaska Police Department

City agency in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2013.

ORI: WI0320200
Type: City
County: La Crosse
State: Wisconsin
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2013-04-01
Location: 43.8834, -91.2317

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 20,165.

31Sworn officers

2Civilian staff

1.64Employees per 1,000 people

20,165Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	31	2	20,165	1.64
2024	31	2	19,068	1.73
2023	31	2	19,029	1.73
2022	31	2	18,807	1.75
2021	30	2	19,243	1.66
2020	28	2	19,072	1.57
2019	26	3	18,825	1.54
2018	28	3	18,841	1.65
2017	28	3	18,847	1.64
2016	26	3	18,600	1.56
2015	25	3	18,529	1.51
2014	26	3	18,437	1.57

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.

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.

$2,994Original acquisition value

6Line items received

2006–2006Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter	6	$2,994	2006-08-09

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 La Crosse

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Bangor Police DepartmentCity · reporting Campbell Township Police DepartmentCity · reporting Holmen Police DepartmentCity · reporting La Crosse County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting La Crosse Police DepartmentCity · reporting University of Wisconsin: La CrosseUniversity or College · reporting West Salem Police DepartmentCity · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record WI0320200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.