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 26, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Havre, Montana, in Hill County, has about 9,200 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 Hill 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: Havre public records, Hill County arrest records, Montana arrest records and Montana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Havre
The FBI lists Havre with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Havre Police Department. It reported 698 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 Hill County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 150 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Havre 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.
- Havre: 698 for 2025, 721 for 2024, 794 for 2023, 796 for 2022, 917 for 2021 and 853 for 2020.
Havre's 698 arrests in 2025 were down 3.2 percent from 721 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Havre reported 365 arrests, against 521 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hill County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 848 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Havre Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Havre 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 39 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 79 beds, and it ran at 49 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 Havre
Whether someone was arrested in Havre, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Hill County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at hillcounty.us/departments/clerk_of_court.php, phone 406.400.2414); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hillcounty.us/departments/county_attorney.php, phone (406)400-2423).
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 Havre
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 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 Havre police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at ci.havre.mt.us/police-department (page title: City of Havre Police Department | City of Havre), phone 406-265-4361, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hill County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (406)400-2423, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hill County District Court, through the court records page at hillcounty.us/departments/clerk_of_court.php, phone 406.400.2414.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hill County guide covers every agency in the county: Hill County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Havre each year?
Havre reported 698 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Havre booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hill County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Havre?
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 Havre?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Havre police for its own arrests, the Hill 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 Havre 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.