Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Centennial, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, has about 109,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Arapahoe County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Centennial public records, Arapahoe County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Centennial
The FBI lists Centennial with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Centennial Police Department. It reported 2,090 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 Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,112 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Arapahoe County: Arapahoe Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Centennial Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Centennial: 2,090 for 2025, 1,283 for 2024, 1,250 for 2023, 1,108 for 2022, 850 for 2021 and 943 for 2020.
Centennial's 2,090 arrests in 2025 were up 63 percent from 1,283 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Centennial reported 1,350 arrests, against 1,379 in the same months of 2025.
Across Arapahoe County, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 23,755 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Centennial Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Centennial 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 2025 the jail held about 890 people, down from about 1,110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 1,174 beds, and it ran at 76 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 Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office at arapahoeco.gov/your_county/county_departments/sheriffs_office/burea... (page title: Detentions Service Bureau), phone 720-874-3500, 7375 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Colorado Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Centennial
For Centennial the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at arapahoeco.gov/your_county/county_departments/coda18/index.php).
Colorado is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public, through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. 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 Centennial
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances, and it may charge research and retrieval time after the first hour, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Centennial police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at centennialco.gov/Online-Services/Request-Public-Records (page title: Request Public Records | City of Centennial), phone 303-325-8000, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 720-874-3500.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Arapahoe County guide covers every agency in the county: Arapahoe County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Centennial each year?
Centennial reported 2,090 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Centennial?
Ask the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office at 720-874-3500; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at arapahoeco.gov.
Where are people arrested in Centennial booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Centennial?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Colorado Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Centennial?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Centennial police for its own arrests, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances.
Is this the official Centennial 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.