Law enforcement provided by Marion County Sheriff's Office
The Village of Prospect no longer runs its own police department. The village contracts with the Marion County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement, according to its 2020 state audit, and the village website lists the Sheriff's Office as its law enforcement provider.
Prospect Police Department
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This former village police department in Prospect, Marion County, Ohio, has closed. The Village of Prospect's state audit covering 2019 and 2020 records that the village paid the Marion County Sheriff's department to protect persons and property in the village, while the village itself ran its sewer, trash and electric service, parks and pool. Today the village's community information points residents to the Marion County Sheriff, giving a dispatch number and a reminder to call 9-1-1 in an emergency, and to the Battle Run Fire Department. Minutes of the village council from June 2026 note that enforcing the village's junk vehicle ordinance would draw on help from a Marion County deputy. Prospect is governed by an elected six-member council and a mayor, and the village posts council meeting minutes on its official website. The successor agency named on this page for police service in Prospect is the county sheriff's office in Marion.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Prospect village, OH has an estimated population of 1,330.
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