SearchSystems Editorial

Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026.

About this guide

Pulaski County, Arkansas, has about 401,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and ten campus, state or other agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Pulaski County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.

This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.

Related guides: Pulaski County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Pulaski County

The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pulaski County. It reported 2,472 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside six of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:

  • Little Rock, 204,774 residents: 9,841 arrests reported for 2025.
  • North Little Rock, 64,498 residents: 3,064 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Sherwood, 33,281 residents: 1,250 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Jacksonville, 29,129 residents: 1,978 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Maumelle, 19,541 residents: 951 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cammack Village, 748 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2025.

A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

The Alexander Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Pulaski County, so its arrests are not broken out for Pulaski County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Pulaski County: the State Park at Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Arkansas State Hospital, the State Park at Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, the Camp Robinson Police Department and three more (state agency); the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of Arkansas at Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Pulaski Technical College (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pulaski County

The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.

  • Little Rock: 9,841 for 2025, 8,949 for 2024, 7,336 for 2023, 7,129 for 2022, 6,770 for 2021 and 7,539 for 2020.
  • North Little Rock: 3,064 for 2025, 2,891 for 2024, 2,984 for 2023, 3,017 for 2022, 3,359 for 2021 and 3,365 for 2020.
  • Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: 2,472 for 2025, 2,203 for 2024, 2,384 for 2023, 1,475 for 2022, 1,477 for 2021 and 1,308 for 2020.
  • Jacksonville: 1,978 for 2025, 1,970 for 2024, 2,005 for 2023, 1,910 for 2022, 1,913 for 2021 and 1,670 for 2020.
  • Sherwood: 1,250 for 2025, 1,230 for 2024, 1,236 for 2023, 1,402 for 2022, 1,284 for 2021 and 1,340 for 2020.
  • Maumelle: 951 for 2025, 1,092 for 2024, 1,383 for 2023, 1,032 for 2022, 948 for 2021 and 850 for 2020.
  • Cammack Village: 6 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 11 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 15 for 2020.

Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 19,562 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 19,562 in 2025 against 18,340 in 2024, up 6.7 percent.

Through March 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,476 arrests, against 4,610 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Pulaski County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Pulaski County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.

On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 1,270 people, up from about 1,170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,210 beds, and it ran at 102 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at pcso.org (page title: Pulaski County Sheriff's Office), phone (501) 340-6600, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.

A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Arkansas Division of Correction lists its inmates at doc.arkansas.gov/correction/online-services.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pulaski County

An arrest in Pulaski County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: CourtConnect, the Arkansas Judiciary's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pulaskipa.org).

Arkansas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public, through the Arkansas State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Pulaski County

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.

  • An arrest by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (501) 340-6600.
  • An arrest in Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Jacksonville, Maumelle or Cammack Village: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by the State Park at Pinnacle Mountain State Park, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock or the University of Arkansas at Medical Sciences: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
  • Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.

The other Pulaski County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, police reports and property records.

Cities in Pulaski County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the seven cities in Pulaski County: Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Jacksonville, Maumelle and Cammack Village. Wrightsville has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Pulaski County Circuit Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Pulaski County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Pulaski County each year?

Little Rock reported 9,841 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 19,562 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pulaski County?

Ask the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office at (501) 340-6600; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pcso.org.

Where are people arrested in Pulaski County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Pulaski County?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Arkansas State Police: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Pulaski County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available.

Is this the official Pulaski County website?

No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.