Columbus Police Department
City agency in Stillwater County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 1,992 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Stillwater County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2005.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- MT0480100
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
Each judge may post a bail schedule for offenses in that court, and a peace officer may accept bail under it without a judge. Otherwise the judge at the initial appearance, most often a justice of the peace or city judge, sets release.
MCA 46-9-302- Time to see a judge
An arrested person must be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest and most accessible judge. The statute sets no hour limit.
MCA 46-7-101
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.