Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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.
Cumberland County, Maine, has about 314,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, 13 city agencies and one campus agency. An arrest 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 each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Cumberland County public records, Maine arrest records, Maine inmate search and Maine criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cumberland County. It reported 742 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Portland, 69,568 residents: 1,913 arrests reported for 2025.
- South Portland, 26,994 residents: 456 arrests reported for 2024.
- Westbrook, 21,386 residents: 754 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Cumberland County: the University of Southern Maine (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cumberland County
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.
- Portland: 1,913 for 2025, 2,082 for 2024, 1,495 for 2023, 1,505 for 2022, 1,612 for 2021 and 2,812 for 2020.
- Westbrook: 754 for 2025, 678 for 2024, 694 for 2023, 608 for 2022, 627 for 2021 and 648 for 2020.
- Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: 742 for 2025, 844 for 2024, 781 for 2023, 622 for 2022, 643 for 2021 and 606 for 2020.
- Brunswick: 552 for 2025, 766 for 2024, 882 for 2023, 940 for 2022, 704 for 2021 and 640 for 2020.
- Scarborough: 407 for 2025, 477 for 2024, 526 for 2023, 489 for 2022, 404 for 2021 and 369 for 2020.
- Windham: 328 for 2025, 324 for 2024, 329 for 2023, 256 for 2022, 244 for 2021 and 223 for 2020.
- Gorham: 300 for 2025, 275 for 2024, 353 for 2023, 355 for 2022, 249 for 2021 and 486 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Falmouth: 196 for 2025, 201 for 2024, 174 for 2023, 119 for 2022, 114 for 2021 and 137 for 2020.
- Freeport: 120 for 2025, 151 for 2024, 169 for 2023, 163 for 2022, 152 for 2021 and 130 for 2020.
- Yarmouth: 53 for 2025, 66 for 2024, 55 for 2023, 78 for 2022, 67 for 2021 and 80 for 2020.
- Cape Elizabeth: 17 for 2025, 17 for 2024, 15 for 2023, 14 for 2022, 18 for 2021 and 31 for 2020.
- Cumberland: 10 for 2025, 34 for 2024, 36 for 2023, 36 for 2022, 51 for 2021 and 88 for 2020.
Together, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,392 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,392 in 2025 against 5,915 in 2024, down 8.8 percent.
Through April 2026, the nine agencies with every month so far on file reported 916 arrests, against 918 in the same months of 2025.
South Portland reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumberland County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cumberland County 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Maine Department of Corrections lists its inmates at apps1.web.maine.gov/online/correctionssearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cumberland County
Whether someone was arrested in Cumberland County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 Cumberland County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Portland, South Portland or Westbrook: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the University of Southern Maine: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Cumberland County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Cumberland County: Portland, South Portland and Westbrook. The FBI's list also carries the Brunswick Police Department, the Cape Elizabeth Police Department, the Falmouth Police Department and seven more as city agencies in Cumberland County; Brunswick, Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth and seven more are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Cumberland County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cumberland County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- South Portland (26,994)
- Westbrook (21,386)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumberland County each year?
Portland reported 1,913 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 12 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,392 between them.
Where are people arrested in Cumberland County 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 Cumberland County?
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 Cumberland County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Cumberland County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.