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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Westbrook, Maine, in Cumberland County, has about 21,000 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Cumberland County Superior Court. 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: Westbrook public records, Cumberland County arrest records, Maine arrest records and Maine inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Westbrook
The FBI lists Westbrook with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Westbrook Police Department. It reported 754 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 742 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cumberland County: the University of Southern Maine (campus police).
How Many Arrests Westbrook 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.
- Westbrook: 754 for 2025, 678 for 2024, 694 for 2023, 608 for 2022, 627 for 2021 and 648 for 2020.
Westbrook's 754 arrests in 2025 were up 11 percent from 678 in 2024.
Through April 2026, Westbrook reported 246 arrests, against 228 in the same months of 2025.
Across Cumberland County, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,392 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Westbrook Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Westbrook 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 2021 the jail held about 290 people, down from about 400 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 570 beds, and it ran at 69 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office at inmates.cumberlandcounty.revize.com/bookings (page title: Inmate Locator | Cumberland_County_ME_Inmates_App), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Maine Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at apps1.web.maine.gov/online/correctionssearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Westbrook
An arrest in Westbrook can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Cumberland County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.maine.gov/ecourts/access.html).
Maine is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction records are public and can be requested on anyone by name, through the Maine State Police State Bureau of Identification. 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 Westbrook
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Maine Freedom of Access Act the agency must answer within a reasonable time, after acknowledging the request within 5 working days, and it may charge staff time after the first two hours, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Westbrook police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at westbrookmaine.gov/m/faq?cat=21 (page title: FAQs | CivicPlus.CMS.FAQ), phone 207-591-8117, 570 Main Street Westbrook, ME 04092, wed on December 31 and July 4 from 9 a.m. until 12:30 a.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cumberland County Superior Court, through the court records page at courts.maine.gov/ecourts/access.html.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcountyme.gov (page title: Welcome to Cumberland County ME).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Cumberland County guide covers every agency in the county: Cumberland County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Westbrook each year?
Westbrook reported 754 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Westbrook booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Westbrook?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Maine State Police State Bureau of Identification: conviction records are public and can be requested on anyone by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Maine Freedom of Access Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Westbrook?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Westbrook police for its own arrests, the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Maine Freedom of Access Act the answer is due within a reasonable time, after acknowledging the request within 5 working days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcountyme.gov.
Is this the official Westbrook 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.