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 September 26, 2026.
Cleveland, Mississippi, in Bolivar County, has about 10,000 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 Bolivar 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: Cleveland public records, Bolivar County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cleveland
The FBI lists Cleveland with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cleveland Police Department. It reported 191 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 Bolivar County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 39 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Cleveland 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.
- Cleveland: 191 for 2025, 335 for 2024, 303 for 2023, 488 for 2022, 526 for 2021 and 765 for 2020.
Cleveland's 191 arrests in 2025 were down 43 percent from 335 in 2024.
Across Bolivar County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,803 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cleveland Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cleveland 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 2019 the jail held about 350 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 369 beds, and it ran at 95 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cleveland
For Cleveland the place to look is the case index of the Bolivar County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at bolivar-circuit-clerk.ms).
Mississippi does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Cleveland
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow, and it may charge the actual cost of search, review and copying.
- An arrest by the Cleveland police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofclevelandms.com/165/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Cleveland, MS), phone 662-843-3611, 301 S Sharpe Avenue Cleveland, MS 38732, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Bolivar County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bolivar County Circuit Court, through the court records page at bolivar-circuit-clerk.ms.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Bolivar County guide covers every agency in the county: Bolivar County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cleveland each year?
Cleveland reported 191 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cleveland booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bolivar County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cleveland?
The court files of criminal cases in the Bolivar County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Mississippi Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cleveland?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cleveland police for its own arrests, the Bolivar County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow.
Is this the official Cleveland 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.