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Colton Police Department

City agency in San Bernardino, California. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
CA0360300
Type
City
County
San Bernardino
State
California
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
34.0718, -117.3233

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 53,417.

55Sworn officers
37Civilian staff
1.72Employees per 1,000 people
53,417Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025553753,4171.72
2024523353,1531.60
2023503553,8931.58
2022532354,5971.39
2021502754,9111.40
2020522455,1171.38
2019522855,0591.45
2018512655,2031.39
2017503455,1271.52
2016462655,1001.31
2015512754,5031.43
2014433153,4851.38

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.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

3 people have died during an encounter with Colton Police Department between 2014 and 2017, according to Mapping Police Violence.

3Deaths recorded
5.62Per 100,000 people policed
20142017Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot3

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

Also policing San Bernardino

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 CA0360300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.