Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 24, 2026.
Harrison County, Mississippi, has about 214,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Harrison County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and four campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Harrison County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Harrison County
The Harrison County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Harrison County. It reported 1,202 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Gulfport, 74,621 residents: 1,504 arrests reported for 2025.
- Biloxi, 48,144 residents: 4,203 arrests reported for 2025.
- Long Beach, 17,217 residents: 301 arrests reported for 2025.
- D'Iberville, 13,399 residents: 890 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pass Christian, 6,429 residents: 390 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
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 Each Agency Reports in Harrison County
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.
- Biloxi: 4,203 for 2025, 5,305 for 2024, 3,943 for 2021, 3,679 for 2020 and 4,153 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- 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.
- Harrison County Sheriff's Office: 1,202 for 2025, 918 for 2024, 832 for 2023, 982 for 2022, 1,264 for 2021 and 1,120 for 2020.
- D'Iberville: 890 for 2025, 828 for 2024, 589 for 2023, 984 for 2020 and 3,062 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Pass Christian: 390 for 2025, 187 for 2024, 158 for 2023, 160 for 2022, 122 for 2021 and 281 for 2020.
- Long Beach: 301 for 2025, 310 for 2024, 324 for 2023, 313 for 2021, 414 for 2020 and 405 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 8,490 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,986 in 2025 against 7,548 in 2024, down 7.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,923 arrests, against 4,130 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Harrison County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Harrison County 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 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 Harrison County
An arrest in Harrison County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Harrison County
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 Harrison County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 228-865-7060.
- An arrest in Gulfport, Biloxi, Long Beach, D'Iberville or Pass Christian: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Department of Marine Resources, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College at Harrison County and AMTC or Biloxi Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Harrison County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Harrison County: Gulfport, Biloxi, Long Beach, D'Iberville and Pass Christian.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Harrison County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Harrison County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Gulfport (74,621)
- Biloxi (48,144)
- D'Iberville (13,399)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Harrison County each year?
Biloxi reported 4,203 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 8,490 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Harrison County?
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 Harrison County 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 Harrison County?
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 Harrison County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Harrison County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Harrison County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.