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

Who Makes Arrests in Moline

The FBI lists Moline with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Moline Police Department. It reported 911 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 Rock Island County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 302 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Rock Island County: Black Hawk College at Moline (campus police).

How Many Arrests Moline 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.

• Moline: 911 for 2025, 833 for 2024, 734 for 2023, 838 for 2022 and 859 for 2021.

Moline's 911 arrests in 2025 were up 9.4 percent from 833 in 2024.

Through September 2026, Moline reported 624 arrests, against 719 in the same months of 2025.

Across Rock Island County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,019 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Moline Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Moline 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 2023 the jail held about 190 people, down from about 270 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 329 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Rock Island County Sheriff's Office at rockislandcountyil.gov/318/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Rock Island County, IL), phone 309-558-3432, 1317 Third Avenue County Justice Center Rock Island, IL 61201, Monday through Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Moline

For Moline the place to look is the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at rockislandcountyil.gov/309/States-Attorney, phone 309-558-3240).

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 Moline

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 Moline police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at moline.il.us/297/Obtaining-Police-Reports (page title: Obtaining Police Reports | City of Moline, IL), Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Rock Island County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 309-558-3432.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 309-558-3240, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at rockislandcountyil.gov (page title: Information & Copy Requests | Rock Island County, IL).
• Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Moline each year?

Moline reported 911 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

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

Ask the Rock Island County Sheriff's Office at 309-558-3432; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at rockislandcountyil.gov/318/Sheriffs-Office.

Where are people arrested in Moline booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Moline?

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 Moline?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Moline police for its own arrests, the Rock Island 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at rockislandcountyil.gov.

Is this the official Moline 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.