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Springfield Police Department

City agency in Clark, Ohio, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI
OH0120200
Type
City
County
Clark
State
Ohio (OH)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location
39.917, -83.7837

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 58,026.

123Sworn officers
11Civilian staff
2.31Employees per 1,000 people
58,026Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
20251231158,0262.31
20241191757,9112.35
20231111357,8662.14
20221141458,7252.18
20201241058,6962.28
20191161159,1282.15
20181251059,0162.29
2017113858,8432.06
20161201259,5032.22
20151241459,8042.31
20131291460,0122.38
20121271660,3292.37

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

17 people have died during an encounter with Springfield Police Department between 2007 and 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.

17Deaths recorded
29.30Per 100,000 people policed
2007–2025Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot8
Vehicle6
Taser2
Asphyxiated/Restrained1

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.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Springfield Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm3
Knife or other cutting instrument1
Hands, fists or feet391
Other weapon53
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199500281
199600332
199701252
199800192
199910224
200010252
200100192
200200201
200300242
200400243
200500137
200600216
200700183
20080072
201000130
20111031
20120091
20130083
20140060
20150050
201600121
20170042
20180081
20190041
20200090
20210010
20220032
20230021
20240041
20250020

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$1.1mOriginal acquisition value
34Line items received
2010–2022Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle2$990,0002018-11-15
Night Vision Goggle20$71,5602022-01-06
Armor,Transparent,Vehicular Window8$13,3352019-08-29
Camera Robot2$3,0002021-02-04
Sight,Reflex4$1,0172011-01-19
Sight,Rear25$2512011-02-13

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Also policing Clark

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 OH0120200. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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