Table 60
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Population Group/Agency Type by Type of Assignment, 2004–2013
| Population group/agency type | Total |
2-Officer vehicle |
1-Officer vehicle | Foot patrol | Other1 |
Off duty |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | ||||
| Number of victim officers | 636 | 56 | 318 | 88 | 2 | 1 | 63 | 91 | 17 |
| Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 69 | 10 | 32 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) | 42 | 7 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) | 34 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) | 38 | 3 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) | 22 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Group VI (cities under 10,000) | 61 | 4 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 1 |
| Metropolitan counties | 143 | 9 | 78 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 18 | 4 |
| Nonmetropolitan counties | 62 | 3 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| State agencies | 118 | 7 | 68 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Federal agencies | 35 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 |
| Puerto Rico and other outlying areas | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
- 1Includes detectives, officers on special assignments, undercover officers, and officers on other types of assignments not listed.
