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War Police Department

City agency in Mcdowell, West Virginia. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1999.

ORI: WV0240200
Type: City
County: Mcdowell
State: West Virginia
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1999-02-01
Location: 37.3827, -81.6582

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 530.

3Sworn officers

0Civilian staff

5.66Employees per 1,000 people

530Population served

Year	Officers	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	3	530	5.66
2024	3	541	5.55
2023	3	556	5.40
2022	3	642	4.67
2021	3	642	4.67
2020	3	668	4.49
2019	2	688	2.91
2018	2	697	2.87
2017	2	735	2.72
2016	2	760	2.63
2015	2	779	2.57
2013	2	808	2.48

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.

Also policing Mcdowell

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

Davy Police DepartmentCity · reporting Department of Natural Resources: McDowell CountyOther State Agency · reporting McDowell County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting State Fire Marshal: McDowell CountyOther State Agency · reporting State Police: WelchState Police · reporting Welch Police DepartmentCity · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record WV0240200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.