Giving an annual report from the year before he arrived, Police Chief Mike Broadhead said he found the number of times the Statesboro Police Department used force in making arrests surprisingly low, a heartening statistic. In 2016, the department noted that a firearm was discharged once in making an arrest and that officers used Tasers 13 times, hands or feet nine times and force described as “other” one time. So in total, 24 use-of-force incidents were reported in a year when officers made 2,145 arrests and issued 6,626 citations and 4,162 warnings during 50,829 calls for service and 10,788 traffic stops.