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Ottawa Police Department

City agency in Putnam, Ohio. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2006.

ORI: OH0690100
Type: City
County: Putnam
State: Ohio
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2006-01-01
Location: 41.0196, -84.0472

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 4,412.

9Sworn officers

0Civilian staff

2.04Employees per 1,000 people

4,412Population served

Year	Officers	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	9	4,412	2.04
2024	9	4,405	2.04
2022	9	4,397	2.05
2021	8	4,310	1.86
2020	8	4,346	1.84
2019	8	4,317	1.85
2018	8	4,346	1.84
2017	8	4,394	1.82
2016	8	4,385	1.82
2012	8	4,438	1.80
2011	8	4,463	1.79
2010	8	4,460	1.79

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.

$39Original acquisition value

2Line items received

2013–2013Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Spectacles,Ballistic And Laser Protective	24	$39	2013-03-28

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 Putnam

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

Belmore Police DepartmentCity · reporting Columbus Grove Police DepartmentCity · reporting Continental Police DepartmentCity · never reported Kalida Police DepartmentCity · reporting Leipsic Police DepartmentCity · reporting Ottoville Police DepartmentCity · reporting Pandora Police DepartmentCity · reporting Putnam County Sheriff's OfficeCounty · reporting

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record OH0690100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.