FBI agency record
Broward County Sheriff's Office
Broward County, Florida
Serves ~11,059 residents · UCR reported
The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is one of the nation's largest full-service public safety agencies with over 5,400 employees, including nearly 3,400 sworn law enforcement officers, detention deputies, and fire rescue personnel. Sheriff Gregory Tony heads the agency.
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Crime & staffing trends
Summary Reporting System counts from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.
Police employment counts reported to the FBI UCR program.
NIBRS incident detail
This agency does not report incident-based (NIBRS) data to the FBI, so no victim, offender, or weapon breakdowns are available. Summary-level reporting may still appear in the trends above.
Open data
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Staffing
- Full-time sworn
- 1,742
- Part-time sworn
- 25
- Full-time civilian
- 2,124
- Part-time civilian
- 31
- Total FT employees
- 4,792
- Population served
- 614,715
- Operating budget
- $990,554,260
Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020
- Sworn officers (2025)
- 1,794
- Civilians (2025)
- 2,899
Reported annually to the FBI UCR program; full history charted above.
Open data
POP conference activity
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