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 25, 2026.
Danville, Indiana, in Hendricks County, has about 13,000 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 Hendricks 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: Danville public records, Hendricks County arrest records, Indiana arrest records and Indiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Danville
The FBI lists Danville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Danville Police Department. It reported 223 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 Hendricks County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 828 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Hendricks County: Brownsburg Community School (other).
How Many Arrests Danville 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.
- Danville: 223 for 2025, 268 for 2024, 418 for 2023, 270 for 2022 and 319 for 2021.
Danville's 223 arrests in 2025 were down 17 percent from 268 in 2024.
Across Hendricks County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,900 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Danville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Danville 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 2024 the jail held about 340 people, up from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 252 beds, and it ran at 103 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 Hendricks County Sheriff's Office at avonindiana.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=55 (page title: Quick Links, Police | Hendricks County Jail Inmate Lookup), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Indiana Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Danville
An arrest in Danville can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.hendricks.in.us/department/index.php?structureid=29, phone (317) 745-9283).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hendricks.in.us/department/index.php?structureid=13 (page title: County Courts | Hendricks County, Indiana), belongs to a lower court, not to the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts.
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 Danville
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 Danville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at danvillein.gov/department/index.php?structureid=5 (page title: Danville Police Department | Danville, IN), phone (317) 745-4180, 49 N Wayne St Danville, IN 46122, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (317) 745-9283, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Hendricks Circuit and Superior Courts it is kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hendricks.in.us, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hendricks County guide covers every agency in the county: Hendricks County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Danville each year?
Danville reported 223 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Danville?
Look on the custody page of the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office at avonindiana.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=55. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Danville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Danville?
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 Danville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Danville police for its own arrests, the Hendricks 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.
Is this the official Danville 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.