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.
Belgrade, Montana, in Gallatin County, has about 13,000 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Gallatin County District 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: Belgrade public records, Gallatin County arrest records, Montana arrest records and Montana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Belgrade
The FBI lists Belgrade with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Belgrade Police Department. It reported 409 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 Gallatin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 647 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Gallatin County: Montana State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Belgrade 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.
- Belgrade: 409 for 2025, 337 for 2024, 274 for 2023, 208 for 2022, 206 for 2021 and 209 for 2020.
Belgrade's 409 arrests in 2025 were up 21 percent from 337 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Belgrade reported 222 arrests, against 296 in the same months of 2025.
Across Gallatin County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,546 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Belgrade Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Belgrade 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 140 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 170 beds, and it ran at 81 percent of it that year. 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 Montana Department of Corrections lists its inmates at offendersearch.mt.gov/conweb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Belgrade
For Belgrade the place to look is the case index of the Gallatin County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gallatinmt.gov/272/Clerk-of-District-Court, phone 406-582-2165).
Montana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CHOPRS service lets anyone search public criminal history online by name, through the Montana Department of Justice. 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 Belgrade
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Montana Public Records Act the agency must answer in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of fulfilling the request.
- An arrest by the Belgrade police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at belgrademt.gov/359/City-Clerk (page title: City Clerk | Belgrade, MT), phone 406-388-3760, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gallatin County District Court, through the court records page at gallatinmt.gov/272/Clerk-of-District-Court, phone 406-582-2165.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Gallatin County guide covers every agency in the county: Gallatin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Belgrade each year?
Belgrade reported 409 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Belgrade booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Belgrade?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Montana Department of Justice: the CHOPRS service lets anyone search public criminal history online by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Montana Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Belgrade?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Belgrade police for its own arrests, the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Montana Public Records Act the answer is due in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Belgrade 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.