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Welch Police Department
City agency in Mcdowell, West Virginia, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1999.
- ORI
- WV0240300
- Type
- City
- County
- Mcdowell
- State
- West Virginia (WV)
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 1999-01-01
- Location
- 37.3827, -81.6582
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 3,366.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 3,366 | 1.19 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3,363 | 0.89 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 3,389 | 0.89 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 1,858 | 1.61 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 1,511 | 2.65 |
| 2020 | 5 | 1 | 1,577 | 3.80 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | 1,645 | 3.65 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 | 1,663 | 4.21 |
| 2017 | 5 | 1 | 1,735 | 3.46 |
| 2016 | 6 | 1 | 1,899 | 3.69 |
| 2015 | 5 | 1 | 2,098 | 2.86 |
| 2013 | 7 | 1 | 2,303 | 3.47 |
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 Welch 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 WV0240300.
Assaults on officers
Officers of Welch Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2014. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.
| Weapon reported | Officers assaulted |
|---|---|
| Firearm | 0 |
| Knife or other cutting instrument | 0 |
| Hands, fists or feet | 10 |
| Other weapon | 6 |
| Year | Firearm | Knife | Hands, fists, feet | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.
This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.
LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.
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 WV0240300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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