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Coloma Township Police Department

City agency in Berrien, Michigan, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1995.

ORI
MI1185300
Type
City
County
Berrien
State
Michigan (MI)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 1995-01-01
Location
42.2011, -86.2948

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 6,387.

8Sworn officers
1Civilian staff
1.41Employees per 1,000 people
6,387Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025816,3871.41
2024826,3771.57
2023936,4051.87
2022816,4121.40
2021736,3071.59
2020736,3191.58
2019836,3621.73
2018826,3691.57
2017836,3621.73
2016736,3881.57
2015836,4181.71
2014736,4291.56

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 Coloma Township Police Department 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
20269 of 128450.0%
2025128675.0%
202412291448.3%
20231211872.7%
20221215960.0%
202112211257.1%
20201211654.5%
20191214428.6%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20269 of 1218211.1%
20251232412.5%
20241234617.6%
202312541018.5%
20221282911.0%
2021121081513.9%
2020129955.1%
201912126118.7%

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 MI1185300.

Arrests

Arrests made by Coloma Township Police Department, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

YearMonths filedArrests
20269 of 1278
20251275
202412150
202312181
202212175
202112201
202012177
201912146

“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 MI1185300.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

1 incident appears in the FBI’s hate crime file for Coloma Township Police Department for 2019, 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
20191
20181
20072
20051
20031
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2003–2019
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Black or African American3
Anti-Jewish1
Anti-Mental Disability1
Anti-White1

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 MI1185300.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

1 person has died during an encounter with Coloma Township Police Department between 2006 and 2006, according to the two datasets named below.

1Deaths recorded
15.66Per 100,000 people policed
2006–2006Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Vehicle1

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: every one of these records comes from Fatal Encounters, which records deaths from 2000–2021. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Coloma Township Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 2001 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm0
Knife or other cutting instrument0
Hands, fists or feet7
Other weapon1
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
20010010
20040030
20150010
20210001
20240010
20250010

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.

$339Original acquisition value
1Line items received
2012–2012Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Sight,Reflex10$3392012-01-04

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 Berrien

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 MI1185300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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