South Bend Police Department

South Bend Police Department is the municipal police agency for South Bend, Indiana. Its command structure includes an Operations Division that oversees Internal Affairs and the Office of Professional Standards, recruitment and training, the Strategic Focus and Strategic Intelligence units, public information, and traffic and special events, along with administration and strategic planning. A separate Patrol Division handles uniformed response, and its leadership regularly attends neighborhood meetings as a liaison to residents. The department has used school resource officers in local middle schools and has run street-crimes and neighborhood enforcement teams in the past. Requests for police reports go through the department's Records Bureau rather than general email. The agency's mission statement focuses on the quality of police service and deterring crime while respecting the city's diversity.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), South Bend city, IN has an estimated population of 102,866.