Wheeling Police Department

Wheeling Police Department has lost 2 officers across 51 years on record. 1 — 50% — was killed feloniously, meaning an officer was deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 8.1 percentage points below the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments.

1 officer was lost to accidents — 50% of this agency's fallen, compared to 28.4% nationally for Police Departments. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 2 officers who died did so in an accident.