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Americus Police Department

City agency in Sumter, Georgia. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2019.

ORI: GA1290100
Type: City
County: Sumter
State: Georgia
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2019-08-01
Location: 32.0422, -84.2043

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 15,632.

26Sworn officers

13Civilian staff

2.49Employees per 1,000 people

15,632Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	26	13	15,632	2.49
2024	26	7	15,541	2.12
2023	27	7	15,370	2.21
2022	33	8	15,808	2.59
2021	31	10	14,798	2.77
2020	32	9	14,910	2.75
2019	34	10	15,110	2.91
2018	39	6	15,184	2.96
2017	34	7	15,668	2.62
2016	33	6	15,838	2.46
2015	35	6	16,107	2.55
2014	36	6	16,200	2.59

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.

Also policing Sumter

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record GA1290100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.