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Porter County Sheriff's Office

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

ORI
IN0640000
Type
County
County
Porter
State
Indiana
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2020-09-01
Location
41.4442, -87.0272

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 73,754.

74Sworn officers
86Civilian staff
2.17Employees per 1,000 people
73,754Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025748673,7542.17
2024712174,3531.24
2020689672,0792.28
201966972,4261.04
201866972,8341.03
2015671272,6051.09
2014671272,5761.09
2011659071,4622.17
2010658571,1002.11
2009658576,4741.96
2008598675,7541.91
2007628576,2171.93

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

2 people have died during an encounter with Porter County Sheriff's Office between 2019 and 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
2.71Per 100,000 people policed
20192021Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot2

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 Porter

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 IN0640000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.