What is a PE Count?

Each year, the Federal Bureau of lnvestigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects information on the number of full-time law enforcement personnel employed within participating agencies. MS NIBRS has been asked to collect the number of officers and civilian employees on each department's payroll as of October 31, 2025, and provide those counts to the FBI's UCR Program. 

Receipt of individual counts will ensure that each agency is accurately represented and that all data can be processed and included in the annual publications, Crime in the United States and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA). Please note, in the LEOKA publication, state and national officer assault data represent only those agencies for which both annual police employee (PE) count and 12 months of officer assault data were reported. 

The numbers should be counted based on the following policy: 

Officer Counts: This count is inclusive of all full-time, sworn personnel that possess full arrest powers and carry a weapon. Their primary duties include responding to routine calls for police service, emergency situations, or crime scenes; performing routine patrol; rendering emergency services, enforcing criminal laws and traffic regulations; and investigating violations of criminal laws and traffic accidents. These employees' salaries are paid from law enforcement funds. In addition, correctional officers and police cadets should only be included in the officer counts if they are sworn and possess full arrest powers. 

Civilian Counts: This count is inclusive of all full-time employees of the agency, i.e., dispatchers, clerks, and meter attendants. These employees' salaries are paid from law enforcement funds. Furthermore, correctional officers or jailers that have no police or arrest powers outside the jail should be counted as civilians as long as their salaries are paid from the funds of the law enforcement agency. 

All employees working in a full-time capacity at your agency must be counted. All departments that are law enforcement must submit a response. If your agency is NIB RS certified and does not submit by the requested deadline, your agency will be considered non-compliant until the data is received. Agencies that are not yet NIBRS certified are still required to report. Agencies will not have access to the test and/or cert site until the data is received. 

Deadline January 15,2026 (extension was granted to January 30, 2026).   

PE Count Reporting Agencies 1-30-26        PD-SO not reported by 1-30-26    University/CC Not Reported by 1-30-26