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 2024. 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 26, 2026.
Parkville, Missouri, in Platte County, has about 9,000 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 Platte County Circuit 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: Parkville public records, Platte County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Parkville
The FBI lists Parkville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Parkville Police Department. It reported 50 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Platte County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,113 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Platte County: Kansas City International Airport (other).
How Many Arrests Parkville Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Parkville: 50 for 2024, 63 for 2023, 57 for 2021, 123 for 2020 and 266 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Parkville's 50 arrests in 2024 were down 21 percent from 63 in 2023.
Across Platte County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,702 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Parkville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Parkville 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 2021 the jail held about 120 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 180 beds, and it ran at 95 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 Platte County Sheriff's Office at plattesheriff.org/divisions/detention/index.php (page title: Sheriff Platte County), phone 816-858-2424, Monday - Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Missouri Department of Corrections lists its inmates at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Parkville
Whether someone was arrested in Parkville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.platte.mo.us/prosecutor, phone (816) 858-3476).
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. 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 Parkville
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Parkville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at parkvillemo.gov/departments/police-dept/police-services/police-repo... (page title: Police Report Copies), phone (816) 741-4454, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Platte County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 816-858-2424.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (816) 858-3476, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.platte.mo.us/sunshine-requests (page title: Sunshine Requests | Platte County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Platte County guide covers every agency in the county: Platte County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Parkville each year?
Parkville reported 50 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Parkville?
Ask the Platte County Sheriff's Office at 816-858-2424; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at plattesheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Parkville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Platte County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Parkville?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Parkville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Parkville police for its own arrests, the Platte County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.platte.mo.us/sunshine-requests.
Is this the official Parkville 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.