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 September 30, 2026.
Cumberland, Indiana, in Hancock County, has about 7,200 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Hancock Circuit and Superior Courts. 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: Cumberland public records, Hancock County arrest records, Indiana arrest records and Indiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumberland
The FBI lists Cumberland with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cumberland Police Department. It reported 77 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 Hancock County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 461 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Cumberland 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.
- Cumberland: 77 for 2025, 115 for 2024, 149 for 2023, 151 for 2022, 156 for 2021 and 212 for 2020.
Cumberland's 77 arrests in 2025 were down 33 percent from 115 in 2024.
Across Hancock County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,006 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumberland Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cumberland 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 2024 the jail held about 250 people, up from about 230 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 157 beds, and it ran at 147 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Indiana Department of Correction lists its inmates at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cumberland
Whether someone was arrested in Cumberland, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Hancock Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at in.gov/courts/local/hancock-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hancockin.gov/267/Prosecutor, phone 317-477-1139).
Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.
Indiana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online, through the Indiana 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 Cumberland
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the agency must answer within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email, and it may charge a copy fee set by the agency, within statutory limits.
- An arrest by the Cumberland police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at town.cumberland.in.us/government/departments/police/records_service... (page title: Cumberland, IN), phone (317) 894-3525, 11501 E. Washington St. Cumberland, IN 46229, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 317-477-1139, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hancock Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/hancock-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hancockin.gov/187/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Hancock County, IN).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hancock County guide covers every agency in the county: Hancock County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumberland each year?
Cumberland reported 77 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cumberland booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hancock County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cumberland?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cumberland?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumberland police for its own arrests, the Hancock County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the answer is due within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hancockin.gov/187/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Cumberland 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.