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Department of Safety

State Police agency in Tennessee, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1997.

ORI: TNTHP0100
Type: State Police
County: Not stated
State: Tennessee (TN)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1997-10-01
Location: 36.1359, -86.7412

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025.

1,359Sworn officers

923Civilian staff

Year	Officers	Civilians	Per 1,000
2025	1,359	923	—
2024	1,279	841	—
2023	1,014	840	—
2022	926	799	—
2021	863	794	—
2020	866	846	—
2019	872	803	—
2018	869	847	—
2017	897	815	—
2016	825	501	—
2015	824	848	—
2014	821	880	—

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 Department of Safety 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
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	192	176	91.7%
2025	12	305	264	86.6%
2024	12	194	168	86.6%
2023	12	108	97	89.8%
2022	12	128	114	89.1%
2021	12	134	110	82.1%
2020	12	125	83	66.4%
2019	12	125	100	80.0%

Property crime
Year	Months filed	Offences	Cleared	Cleared as % of offences
2026	9 of 12	108	99	91.7%
2025	12	165	146	88.5%
2024	12	105	90	85.7%
2023	12	80	67	83.8%
2022	12	98	83	84.7%
2021	12	107	92	86.0%
2020	12	128	113	88.3%
2019	12	129	111	86.0%

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 TNTHP0100.

Arrests

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

Year	Months filed	Arrests
2026	9 of 12	5,987
2025	12	9,361
2024	12	9,548
2023	12	7,300
2022	12	7,142
2021	12	6,744
2020	12	6,558
2019	12	7,851

“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 TNTHP0100.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

5 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Department of Safety 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
Year	Incidents appearing in the file
2025	5
2024	3
2023	5
2022	1
2021	12
2019	32
2018	12
2017	9
2016	11
2015	13
2014	1
2013	1
2012	1
2009	2
2001	1

Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 2001–2025
Bias motivation	Incidents
Anti-White	63
Anti-Black or African American	24
Anti-Hispanic or Latino	5
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming	4
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry	3
Anti-Male	2
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	2
Anti-Church of Jesus Christ	1
Anti-Other Christian	1
Anti-Sikh	1

3 of these incidents record more than one bias motivation. The FBI’s file stores those as a single list; each is shown here as its separate entries joined by “+”, and none is added to a line in the table above.

Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Gay (Male) + Anti-Jewish — 1
Anti-Black or African American + Anti-Multiple Races, Group — 1
Anti-Lesbian (Female) + Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) — 1

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 TNTHP0100.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Department of Safety assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1997 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	92
Knife or other cutting instrument	18
Hands, fists or feet	728
Other weapon	238

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1997	0	0	0	2
1998	0	0	0	2
2000	0	0	0	1
2001	0	0	0	2
2002	0	0	2	3
2003	0	0	7	8
2004	0	1	5	6
2005	0	0	3	4
2006	1	0	6	10
2007	0	0	0	1
2008	0	0	2	0
2009	2	0	3	6
2010	0	1	3	1
2011	0	0	3	3
2012	1	0	2	6
2013	0	0	3	5
2014	0	0	7	9
2015	1	0	9	2
2016	1	0	9	2
2017	14	0	41	26
2018	2	7	68	8
2019	4	2	51	6
2020	0	1	38	10
2021	4	0	52	10
2022	6	0	30	7
2023	5	0	38	6
2024	0	0	71	46
2025	51	6	275	46

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.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record TNTHP0100. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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