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 23, 2026 and September 29, 2026.

About this guide

Miami-Dade County, Florida, has about 2.8 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Miami-Dade County Police Department, 34 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 State Attorney files charges, a case in the Miami-Dade 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: Miami-Dade County public records, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Miami-Dade County

The Miami-Dade County Police Department is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Miami-Dade County. It reported 11,565 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists 34 cities in Miami-Dade County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Miami, 487,014 residents: 18,253 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Hialeah, 235,388 residents: 2,124 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Miami Gardens, 116,173 residents: 206 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Homestead, 85,796 residents.
  • Doral, 83,625 residents: 860 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Miami Beach, 83,251 residents.
  • North Miami, 62,202 residents.
  • Coral Gables, 50,379 residents: 436 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cutler Bay, 45,833 residents: 164 arrests reported for 2025.
  • North Miami Beach, 45,655 residents: 852 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Aventura, 40,531 residents: 493 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Miami Lakes, 33,247 residents: 43 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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Miami-Dade County: the Department of Law Enforcement at Miami-Dade County, Miami, the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Miami-Dade County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Miami-Dade County, the Department of Insurance in Miami-Dade County and three more (state agency); Florida International University (campus police); Miami-Dade County Public Schools (other); the Highway Patrol in Miami-Dade County (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Miami-Dade 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.

  • Miami: 18,253 for 2025, 17,238 for 2024 and 14,855 for 2023.
  • Miami-Dade County Police Department: 11,565 for 2025, 11,789 for 2024, 10,393 for 2023 and 8,545 for 2022.
  • Hialeah: 2,124 for 2025, 1,850 for 2024, 1,802 for 2023, 1,770 for 2022 and 1,889 for 2021.
  • Doral: 860 for 2025, 1,010 for 2024, 1,086 for 2023, 920 for 2022 and 767 for 2021.
  • North Miami Beach: 852 for 2025, 813 for 2024 and 624 for 2023.
  • Aventura: 493 for 2025, 696 for 2024, 681 for 2023, 742 for 2022 and 447 for 2021.
  • Florida City: 467 for 2025, 313 for 2024 and 201 for 2023.
  • Coral Gables: 436 for 2025, 420 for 2023, 329 for 2022 and 299 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
  • Sunny Isles Beach: 345 for 2025, 326 for 2024, 235 for 2023 and 198 for 2022.
  • South Miami: 255 for 2025, 285 for 2024, 224 for 2023, 287 for 2022 and 190 for 2021.
  • Miami Gardens: 206 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 20 for 2023, 2,230 for 2020 and 3,217 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Hialeah Gardens: 166 for 2025 and 92 for 2024.

Together, the 17 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 36,508 arrests that year. The 16 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 36,072 in 2025 against 34,969 in 2024, up 3.2 percent.

Through July 2026, the 13 agencies with every month so far on file reported 17,983 arrests, against 21,441 in the same months of 2025.

Indian Creek, West Miami, Miami Shores, Homestead and three more reported only part of 2025 (10 months, 10 months, 6 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Miami-Dade County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Miami-Dade 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.

So far in 2026 the jail has held about 4,450 people on an average day, up from about 4,180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 4,660 beds, and it ran at 92 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Miami-Dade County Police Department at miamidade.gov/global/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1491494549439906 (page title: Inmate In-Custody Search), phone 786-263-7000, 3505 NW 107 Ave., Doral, FL 33178, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 29, 2026.

That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.

A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Florida Department of Corrections lists its inmates at fdc.myflorida.com.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Miami-Dade County

Whether someone was arrested in Miami-Dade County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Miami-Dade County Police Department described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at miamidadeclerk.gov/clerk/records.page).

Florida is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24 a search, through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. 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 Miami-Dade 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 Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the agency must answer promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the copy fees set by statute, plus a special service charge for large requests.

  • An arrest by the Miami-Dade County Police Department: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 786-263-7000.
  • An arrest in Miami, Hialeah, Miami Gardens, Homestead, Doral, Miami Beach or another of the cities listed above: 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 Department of Law Enforcement at Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida International University or Miami-Dade County Public Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, through the court records page at miamidadeclerk.gov/clerk/records.page.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at miamidadeclerk.gov (page title: Public Records Request).
  • Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

Cities in Miami-Dade County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the 34 cities in Miami-Dade County: the twelve named above and Palmetto Bay, Hialeah Gardens, Sunny Isles Beach, Sweetwater, Pinecrest, Opa-locka, Key Biscayne, Miami Springs, South Miami, Florida City, Miami Shores, North Bay Village, West Miami, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Biscayne Park, Bal Harbour, Virginia Gardens, El Portal, Medley, Golden Beach and Indian Creek.

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

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County each year?

Miami reported 18,253 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 17 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 36,508 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Miami-Dade County?

Look on the custody page of the Miami-Dade County Police Department at miamidade.gov, or call 786-263-7000. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Miami-Dade County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Miami-Dade County Police Department; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Miami-Dade County?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119).

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Miami-Dade County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Miami-Dade County Police Department for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the answer is due promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at miamidadeclerk.gov.

Is this the official Miami-Dade 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.