Grants Pass Department of Public Safety

Every patrol officer in Grants Pass, Oregon, has completed the basic police academy run by Oregon's standards and training agency, DPSST, in Salem, followed by a thirteen-week Field Training and Evaluation Program. Officers then join day or night teams, each led by a corporal and a sergeant, and night teams include a K-9 officer; the city is split into geographic beats so officers stay in their areas and respond faster. Traffic officers, re-established in 2001, run grant-funded distracted driving, DUI and speed operations, place radar trailers and run speed studies near parks and school zones, patrol on motorcycles along the Grants Pass Parkway and reconstruct crashes. The K-9 program, begun in 2000, has been paid for entirely by donations and grants and includes a drug-detection dog. The Communications and Records Unit handles radio and phone traffic and keeps police data; records staff process non-emergency calls, release impounded vehicles, take found property and handle sex offender registration and vehicle-for-hire and OLCC licensing. Residents can file online reports for theft, vandalism, mail theft and minor crashes, appeal parking citations, join a business self-inspection program and register surveillance cameras. Oregon's records statutes, ORS 192.311–192.478, govern requests for its files.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Grants Pass city, OR has an estimated population of 39,183.