As a suburb of the Kansas City metropolitan area, Overland Park, Kansas is the second most populous city in Kansas (2015 estimate 187,730). The city is 75.6 sq miles, spanning nearly the entire distance between the northern and southern borders of Johnson County.
The Police Department has 302 full-time employees and 18.5 full-time equivalent employees. Of the 302 employees, 250 are commissioned personnel.
There are four major divisions of the Police Department: Patrol, Patrol Support, Support Services and Investigations.