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 between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Camden County, North Carolina, has about 11,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Camden County Sheriff's Office and one state agency. 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 Camden County Superior 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Camden County public records, North Carolina arrest records, North Carolina inmate search and North Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Camden County
The Camden County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Camden County. It reported 207 arrests for 2025.
The Elizabeth City Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Camden County, so its arrests are not broken out for Camden County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Camden County: the State Park Rangers at Dismal Swamp (state agency).
How Many Arrests The Camden County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Camden County Sheriff's Office: 207 for 2025, 231 for 2024, 105 for 2023, 88 for 2022, 161 for 2021 and 180 for 2020.
The Camden County Sheriff's Office's 207 arrests in 2025 were down 10 percent from 231 in 2024.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Camden County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Camden County 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 33 people, down from about 38 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 43 beds, and it ran at 72 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Camden County Sheriff's Office at camdenncsheriff.com (page title: About Camden County Jail, NC, Sheriff's Office), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction lists its inmates at dac.nc.gov/dac-services/criminal-offender-searches.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Camden County
For Camden County the place to look is the case index of the Camden County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at nccourts.gov/locations/camden-county).
Statewide, eCourts Portal is the North Carolina Judicial Branch's free statewide case search.
North Carolina does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation 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 Camden County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the North Carolina Public Records Act the agency must answer as promptly as possible; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Camden County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by the State Park Rangers at Dismal Swamp: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Camden County Superior Court, through the court records page at nccourts.gov/locations/camden-county.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at camdencountync.gov/310/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Camden County, NC).
- Your own statewide record: a Right to Review request, fingerprint-based, to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Camden County each year?
The Camden County Sheriff's Office reported 207 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Camden County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Camden County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Camden County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Camden County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the North Carolina Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Camden County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Camden County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the North Carolina Public Records Act the answer is due as promptly as possible; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at camdencountync.gov/310/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Camden 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.