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Ohio County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Ohio, West Virginia. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1998.

ORI: WV0350000
Type: County
County: Ohio
State: West Virginia
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1998-07-01
Location: 40.0989, -80.6207

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 10,228.

28Sworn officers

2Civilian staff

2.93Employees per 1,000 people

10,228Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	28	2	10,228	2.93
2024	30	6	10,303	3.49
2023	30	6	10,221	3.52
2022	30	6	10,173	3.54
2021	36	2	10,252	3.71
2020	36	2	10,171	3.74
2019	36	2	9,985	3.81
2018	35	2	10,016	3.69
2017	34	2	9,886	3.64
2016	34	2	10,020	3.59
2015	34	2	10,206	3.53
2013	33	2	10,701	3.27

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.

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.

$20,721Original acquisition value

29Line items received

1998–2017Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Rifle,5.56 Millimeter	29	$20,721	2017-09-18

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 Ohio

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

Bethlehem Police DepartmentCity · reporting Clearview Police DepartmentCity · reporting Department of Natural Resources: Ohio CountyOther State Agency · reporting Ohio Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task ForceOther · reporting State Fire Marshal: Ohio CountyOther State Agency · reporting State Police: WheelingState Police · reporting Triadelphia Police DepartmentCity · reporting West Liberty Police DepartmentCity · reporting West Liberty UniversityUniversity or College · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record WV0350000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.