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

Who Makes Arrests in Bensenville

The FBI lists Bensenville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bensenville Police Department. It reported 67 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 DuPage County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 279 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in DuPage County: DuPage County Forest Preserve and the Naperville Park District (other); the College of DuPage and Benedictine University at Lisle (campus police).

How Many Arrests Bensenville 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.

• Bensenville: 67 for 2025, 141 for 2024 and 154 for 2023.

Bensenville's 67 arrests in 2025 were down 52 percent from 141 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Bensenville reported 60 arrests, against 46 in the same months of 2025.

Across DuPage County, the 27 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,532 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Bensenville Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bensenville 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 2022 the jail held about 490 people, down from about 530 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 963 beds, and it ran at 55 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 DuPage County Sheriff's Office at dupagesheriff.org (page title: DuPage County Sheriff’s Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.

A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bensenville

An arrest in Bensenville can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Circuit Court of DuPage County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dupagecircuitclerk.gov); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dupagecounty.gov/elected_officials/state_s_attorney, phone 630-407-8000).

Illinois is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act, through the Illinois 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 Bensenville

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.

• An arrest by the Bensenville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at bensenville.gov/319/Records-Division (page title: Records Division | Bensenville, IL), phone 630-350-3455, 0855 BENSENVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT 345 E Green Street Bensenville, IL 60106, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the DuPage County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 630-407-8000, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court of DuPage County, through the court records page at dupagecircuitclerk.gov.
• Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Bensenville each year?

Bensenville reported 67 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

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

Ask the DuPage County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at dupagesheriff.org.

Where are people arrested in Bensenville booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Bensenville?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Bensenville police for its own arrests, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension.

Is this the official Bensenville 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.