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 2023. 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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Richmond, Missouri, in Ray County, has about 5,900 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 Ray 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: Richmond public records, Ray County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Richmond
The FBI lists Richmond with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Richmond Police Department. It reported 237 arrests for 2023, 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 Ray County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 87 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Richmond 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.
- Richmond: 237 for 2023, 653 for 2020 and 702 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Across Ray County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 103 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Richmond Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Richmond 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 2019 the jail held about 120 people. 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 Missouri Department of Corrections lists its inmates at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Richmond
For Richmond the place to look is Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Richmond
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 Richmond police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofrichmondmo.org/departments/police/obtaining-a-police-report (page title: Obtaining a Police Report | City of Richmond, Missouri), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Ray County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Ray County guide covers every agency in the county: Ray County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Richmond each year?
Richmond reported 237 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Richmond booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Ray County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Richmond?
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 Richmond?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Richmond police for its own arrests, the Ray County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Richmond 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.