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.
Indianola, Mississippi, in Sunflower County, has about 8,700 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 Sunflower 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: Indianola public records, Sunflower County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Indianola
The FBI lists Indianola with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Indianola Police Department. It reported 1,152 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 Sunflower County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Sunflower County: Mississippi Delta Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Indianola 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.
- Indianola: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
Through September 2026, Indianola reported 666 arrests, against 864 in the same months of 2025.
Across Sunflower County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,915 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Indianola Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Indianola 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 2020 the jail held about 43 people, down from about 57 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 94 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Indianola
For Indianola the place to look is the case index of the Sunflower County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sunflowercircuitclerk.com, phone (662) 887-1252).
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 Indianola
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 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 Indianola police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at indianolams.gov/police (page title: Police | City of Indianola), phone 662-887-1811, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sunflower County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sunflower County Circuit Court, through the court records page at sunflowercircuitclerk.com, phone (662) 887-1252.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Sunflower County guide covers every agency in the county: Sunflower County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Indianola each year?
Indianola reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Indianola booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sunflower County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Indianola?
The court files of criminal cases in the Sunflower 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 Indianola?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Indianola police for its own arrests, the Sunflower 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 Indianola 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.