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 27, 2026.
North Platte, Nebraska, in Lincoln County, has about 23,000 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 Lincoln 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: North Platte public records, Lincoln County arrest records, Nebraska arrest records and Nebraska inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in North Platte
The FBI lists North Platte with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as North Platte Police Department. It reported 1,156 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 Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 284 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Lincoln County: the State Patrol in Lincoln County (state police).
How Many Arrests North Platte 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.
- North Platte: 1,156 for 2025, 1,425 for 2024, 1,517 for 2023, 1,186 for 2022, 1,122 for 2021 and 1,313 for 2020.
North Platte's 1,156 arrests in 2025 were down 19 percent from 1,425 in 2024.
Through July 2026, North Platte reported 749 arrests, against 731 in the same months of 2025.
Across Lincoln County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,440 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in North Platte Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in North Platte 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 2023 the jail held about 150 people, up from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 213 beds, and it ran at 71 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 Lincoln County Sheriff's Office at p2c.lincolnsheriff.org/jailinmates.aspx (page title: Lincoln County Sheriffs Office P2C), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services lists its inmates at dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/COR_input.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in North Platte
Whether someone was arrested in North Platte, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lincoln County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at nebraskajudicial.gov/e-services/case-information-eservices); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lincolncountyne.gov/county-attorney, phone 308-534-4350).
Statewide, Nebraska Trial Court Case Search is the Nebraska Judicial Branch's statewide case search, with a fee per search.
Nebraska is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online, through the Nebraska State Patrol. 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 North Platte
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the agency must answer within 4 business days, and it may charge copying, and staff time after the first four hours.
- An arrest by the North Platte police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at northplattene.gov/411/Records-Division (page title: Records Division | North Platte, NE), phone 308-535-6789, 701 S Jeffers Street North Platte, NE 69101, Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 308-534-4350, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lincoln County District Court, through the court records page at nebraskajudicial.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lincoln.ne.gov (page title: Public Records Requests | City of Lincoln, NE).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Lincoln County guide covers every agency in the county: Lincoln County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in North Platte each year?
North Platte reported 1,156 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in North Platte?
Ask the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at p2c.lincolnsheriff.org/jailinmates.aspx.
Where are people arrested in North Platte booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in North Platte?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Nebraska State Patrol: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in North Platte?
From the agency that made the arrest: the North Platte police for its own arrests, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lincoln.ne.gov.
Is this the official North Platte 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.