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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Dover, Delaware, in Kent County, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Dover comes from a judge of the Delaware Superior Court, Kent County or the Court of Common Pleas and the Justice of the Peace Courts, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Dover public records, Kent County warrants, Dover arrest records, Dover inmate search, Dover criminal records, Dover court records, Delaware arrest records and Delaware inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Dover
In Delaware an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Dover that means the Delaware Superior Court, Kent County, which hears felonies and civil cases without a dollar limit; the Court of Common Pleas and the Justice of the Peace Courts, which take misdemeanors in the Court of Common Pleas, traffic cases and small civil claims in the Justice of the Peace Courts, issue their own warrants on the cases before them.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the Prothonotary.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.delaware.gov/aoc/kccourthouse (page title: Kent County Courthouse | Administrative Office of the Courts | Delaware Courts | State of Delaware), phone 302.735.1900, 414 Federal Street Dover, DE 19901, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Court of Common Pleas and the Justice of the Peace Courts, not to the Delaware Superior Court, Kent County.
Statewide, CourtConnect is the Delaware courts' free online case search for civil cases and judgments.
Who Serves Warrants in Dover
The state police or the town police and the agency that reports for Dover (filed by the FBI as Dover Police Department) serve warrants in and around Dover.
In Delaware the police for a given address is the town police in a town with its own department and the Delaware State Police elsewhere.
The FBI's agency list also places seven state agencies, one other agency, one state police unit and one campus police department in Kent County (the arrest records guide names each one); each serves warrants on its own ground.
The Milford Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Kent County, so its arrests are not broken out for Kent County here.
The agency that serves a warrant from Kent County is whichever one finds the person; a Delaware warrant is valid across Delaware.
Together, the 11 agencies in Kent County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,681 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Dover arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Dover Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody is in the custody of the Delaware Department of Correction, which runs every jail and prison in Delaware; its inmate locator is at doc.delaware.gov/views/inmate_locator.blade.shtml.
How to Check for a Warrant in Dover
Whether a warrant is out from Dover shows in two places:
- The court file of the case, through the Prothonotary at 302.735.1900, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
- CourtConnect, the Delaware courts' free online case search for civil cases and judgments, for a case whose register of actions shows a warrant.
Not one of the Kent County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's, the court's and the records request page) is a list of open warrants, so a check means asking the court or the prosecutor about a case by name.
The statewide criminal history kept by the Delaware State Bureau of Identification is not open to the public in Delaware, so it is not a route to a warrant check on someone else.
Clearing a Warrant from Dover
A warrant is recalled by the court that issued it, so clearing one from Dover starts with the Prothonotary at 302.735.1900: the case goes back on the calendar and the judge recalls the warrant when the person appears.
A missed date in a case before the Court of Common Pleas and the Justice of the Peace Courts is handled by that court, not by the Delaware Superior Court, Kent County.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Dover?
Not from the Kent County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. CourtConnect is the Delaware courts' free online case search for civil cases and judgments, and a case whose register of actions shows a warrant is the record of it. The court file is the record of a warrant: ask the Prothonotary at 302.735.1900.
Who serves warrants in Dover?
The agency that reports for Dover inside the city and the state police or the town police outside it, or whichever agency finds the person; a Delaware warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Dover held?
In a facility of the Delaware Department of Correction, which runs every jail in Delaware.
How is a warrant from Dover cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Prothonotary at 302.735.1900.
Is this the official Dover 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.