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Columbus Police Department

City agency in Bartholomew, Indiana. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2020.

ORI: IN0030100
Type: City
County: Bartholomew
State: Indiana
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2020-10-01
Location: 39.1998, -85.9209

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 52,346.

88Sworn officers

9Civilian staff

1.85Employees per 1,000 people

52,346Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	88	9	52,346	1.85
2024	88	8	51,867	1.85
2021	83	8	48,902	1.86
2020	21	1	48,505	0.45
2018	84	10	47,595	1.97
2015	80	8	46,640	1.89
2014	80	8	46,196	1.90
2012	73	8	44,817	1.81
2011	75	8	44,286	1.87
2010	73	8	44,061	1.84
2009	73	8	40,087	2.02
2008	74	9	39,889	2.08

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 Bartholomew

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

Bartholomew County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting Indiana University: ColumbusUniversity or College · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record IN0030100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.