Douglas Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Douglas

The FBI lists Douglas with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Douglas Police Department. It reported 582 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

Outside the city, the Cochise County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,111 arrests for 2025.

How Many Arrests Douglas Reports

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.

• Douglas: 582 for 2025, 630 for 2024, 694 for 2023, 726 for 2021, 703 for 2020 and 960 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.

Douglas's 582 arrests in 2025 were down 7.6 percent from 630 in 2024.

Through July 2026, Douglas reported 323 arrests, against 352 in the same months of 2025.

Across Cochise County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,108 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Douglas Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Douglas is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.

On an average day in 2020 the jail held about 190 people, down from about 260 in 2019. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at cochise.az.gov/414/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Cochise County, AZ), phone 520-432-7540, 205 N Judd Drive Mile Post 345, Highway 80 Bisbee, AZ 85603, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 am -2:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.

A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry lists its inmates at corrections.az.gov/inmate-data-search.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Douglas

An arrest in Douglas can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Cochise County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cochise.az.gov/191/Requesting-Copies-of-Court-Documents); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cochise.az.gov/193/County-Attorney, phone 520.432-8700).

Statewide, Public Access to Court Information is the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own.

Arizona does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Douglas

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the agency must answer promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute, and it may charge the cost of copies, and more for commercial requests.

• An arrest by the Douglas police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at douglasaz.gov/461/Records (page title: Records | Douglas, AZ), phone 520-417-7501, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 520-432-7540.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 520.432-8700, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Cochise County Superior Court, through the court records page at cochise.az.gov.
• Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.

The Cochise County guide covers every agency in the county: Cochise County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Douglas each year?

Douglas reported 582 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Douglas?

Ask the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at 520-432-7540; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cochise.az.gov/414/Sheriff.

Where are people arrested in Douglas booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Douglas?

The court files of criminal cases in the Cochise County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arizona Public Records Law.

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Douglas police for its own arrests, the Cochise County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the answer is due promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute.

Is this the official Douglas website?

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