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Bell County Sheriff's Office

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

ORI
TX0140000
Type
County
County
Bell
State
Texas
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2020-05-01
Location
31.0423, -97.4814

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 58,744.

120Sworn officers
467Civilian staff
9.99Employees per 1,000 people
58,744Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202512046758,7449.99
202412630664,5256.70
20234223062,7027.21
202211226865,0285.84
202111425357,5906.37
202010125459,2185.99
201610420556,9805.42
201510320658,3775.29
20149318760,4664.63
20139116859,7544.33
20129316159,7124.25
20118916759,1934.32

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 Bell County Sheriff's Office between 2014 and 2016, according to Mapping Police Violence.

2Deaths recorded
3.40Per 100,000 people policed
20142016Period 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 Bell

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 TX0140000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.