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.
Gulfport, Mississippi, in Harrison County, has about 75,000 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 Harrison 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: Gulfport public records, Harrison County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Gulfport
The FBI lists Gulfport with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Gulfport Police Department. It reported 1,504 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 Harrison County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,202 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Harrison County: the Department of Marine Resources, Biloxi Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division and the Biloxi Capitol Police (state agency); Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College at Harrison County and AMTC (campus police).
How Many Arrests Gulfport 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.
- Gulfport: 1,504 for 2025, 4,343 for 2021, 3,877 for 2020 and 5,290 for 2019; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Across Harrison County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 8,490 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gulfport Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gulfport 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 2024 the jail held about 760 people, down from about 820 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 760 beds, and it ran at 98 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 Harrison County Sheriff's Office at harrisoncountysheriff.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate-search | Harrison County Sheriff's Office), phone 228-865-7060, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Mississippi Department of Corrections lists its inmates at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gulfport
Whether someone was arrested in Gulfport, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Harrison County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Harrison County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at harrison2.co.harrison.ms.us/dockets/circuitcourt.asp); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at harrisoncountyms.gov/government/district_attorney/index.php).
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 Gulfport
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 Gulfport police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at gulfport-ms.gov/departments/police/services.php (page title: Gulfport, MS), phone (228)868-5959, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Harrison County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 228-865-7060.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Harrison County Circuit Court, through the court records page at harrison2.co.harrison.ms.us.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Harrison County guide covers every agency in the county: Harrison County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gulfport each year?
Gulfport reported 1,504 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gulfport?
Look on the custody page of the Harrison County Sheriff's Office at harrisoncountysheriff.com/inmate-search, or call 228-865-7060. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Gulfport booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Harrison County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gulfport?
The court files of criminal cases in the Harrison 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 Gulfport?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gulfport police for its own arrests, the Harrison 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 Gulfport 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.