The Columbus Police Department Hazardous Devices Unit, or bomb squad, was formed with the approval of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the spring of 2004.\u00a0 The unit currently has three certified bomb technician, and one support member.\u00a0 The unit also has a post blast trained investigator for crime scene analysis.<\/p>\n
The three certified bomb technicians graduate or have graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Hazardous Devices School Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama.\u00a0 This is currently the only approved training location for law enforcement bomb technicians.<\/p>\n
Support personnel receive training in equipment and tactics in addition to graduating from the A.T.F. Post Blast Investigators School.\u00a0 These officers work hand in hand with the bomb technicians to successfully resolve issues that are encountered.<\/p>\n
The Columbus Police Department Hazardous Devices Unit also works with corporate and private businesses to train them in the proper procedures for dealing with bomb threats and suspicious packages. Only procedures approved by the Hazardous Devices School are taught and employed.<\/p>\n
The majority of the unit\u2019s equipment was purchased through funds made available from the Division of Homeland Security specifically for accredited bomb squads.\u00a0 The unit currently has several items of equipment including a portable x-ray device and several tools employed in improvised explosive device mitigation.<\/p>\n
Explosives, improvised explosive devices and military ordnance are all extremely dangerous.\u00a0 It is important to remember that these items can kill and seriously injure without notice.\u00a0 At no time should anyone, except a trained bomb technician, attempt to make, move, disturb or touch any item that appears to be suspicious in nature or readily appears to have an explosive content.\u00a0 If you come into contact with something like this contact the Bartholomew County Emergency Operations Center at (812) 379-1689.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
History and Personnel The Columbus Police Department Hazardous Devices Unit, or bomb squad, was formed with the approval of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the spring of 2004.\u00a0 The unit currently has three certified bomb technician, and one support member.\u00a0 The unit also has a post blast trained investigator for crime scene analysis. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 14:28:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}