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War Police Department
City agency in Mcdowell, West Virginia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1999.
- ORI
- WV0240200
- Type
- City
- County
- Mcdowell
- State
- West Virginia (WV)
- 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.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 530 | 5.66 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 541 | 5.55 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 556 | 5.40 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 642 | 4.67 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 642 | 4.67 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 668 | 4.49 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 688 | 2.91 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 697 | 2.87 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 735 | 2.72 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 760 | 2.63 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 779 | 2.57 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 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.
Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file
No incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for War Police Department in any year from 1991 to 2025, as at 14 August 2026. This does not mean none occurred.
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 WV0240200.
Deaths during encounters with this agency
1 person has died during an encounter with War Police Department between 2002 and 2002, according to the two datasets named below.
| Recorded cause | Deaths |
|---|---|
| Vehicle | 1 |
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.
Source: every one of these records comes from Fatal Encounters, which records deaths from 2000–2021. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled.
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.
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.
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