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Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2001.

ORI
KS0870000
Type
County
County
Sedgwick
State
Kansas (KS)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2001-12-01
Location
37.6948, -97.3396

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 38,502.

219Sworn officers
319Civilian staff
13.97Employees per 1,000 people
38,502Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202521931938,50213.97
20241966843,4386.08
20221915937,5406.66
20211926442,2976.05
20201836337,8796.49
201917733937,27713.84
20171845737,4496.44
201516330137,31612.43
201417633437,83013.48
201317932637,51113.46
201217132537,74113.14
201117334037,58213.65

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.

Crime and clearances

Offences and clearances filed by Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in its monthly returns to the FBI, added up by calendar year, 2019–2026. Violent crime and property crime are the FBI’s two categories. These are the counts as filed: Police Census does not turn them into a rate.

Violent crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 121324433.3%
2025121845731.0%
2024122656323.8%
20231219831.5%
202212751418.7%
202112963334.4%
2020121615634.8%
2019121084238.9%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20268 of 12256239.0%
202512420378.8%
202412562335.9%
20231248610.2%
20221230472.3%
202112415143.4%
202012584142.4%
201912313144.5%

Reading the table. “Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A 0 is a figure the agency filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting: that year is not complete in the file we read, so where this agency has no 2026 figures the table says “Not yet in the FBI’s file” rather than “Not reported”. We can see that the agency is absent from the file so far; we cannot tell whether it has not filed or has not yet been published, and we do not guess. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months the agency filed, so it is not a full-year total. A dash in the last column means the percentage cannot be worked out: it needs both figures, and at least one offence.

“Cleared” is the FBI file’s clearance count for the year. Clearances in a year can relate to offences from earlier years, so the percentage is not the share of that year’s offences that were solved, and it can exceed 100%. Figures are not adjusted: a year far below the agency’s neighbouring years, or a 0 beside many offences, may reflect what was submitted rather than what happened. The file does not say which, and Police Census does not guess.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, summarized data for agency record KS0870000.

Arrests

Arrests made by Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

YearMonths filedArrests
20268 of 121,133
2025121,596
2024121,636
202312234
202212879
202112828
2020121,049
201912689

“Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting, so an absent agency reads “Not yet in the FBI’s file”: absent from the file so far, which is not the same claim as having filed nothing. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record KS0870000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

2 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office for 2025, as at 14 August 2026. The table lists every year from 1991 to 2025 for which the file has at least one.

Incidents appearing in the FBI’s file, as at 14 August 2026
YearIncidents appearing in the file
20252
20245
20233
20225
20214
20204
20194
20182
20172
20161
20151
20141
20131
20111
20101
20092
20061
20051
20031
19922
19913
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American12
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)10
Anti-White7
Anti-Hispanic or Latino3
Anti-Sikh3
Anti-Gay (Male)2
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry2
Anti-Asian1
Anti-Catholic1
Anti-Jewish1
Anti-Lesbian (Female)1
Anti-Male1
Anti-Multiple Races, Group1
Anti-Other Religion1
Anti-Transgender1

Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.

The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record KS0870000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

17 people have died during an encounter with Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office between 2000 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

17Deaths recorded
44.15Per 100,000 people policed
2000–2026Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot11
Vehicle6

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.

Source: these records come from Fatal Encounters (10) and Mapping Police Violence (7). Where both recorded the same death it is counted once. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how the two are combined. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).

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.

$658,000Original acquisition value
1Line items received
2013–2013Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle1$658,0002013-11-12

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 Sedgwick

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 KS0870000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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