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 October 2, 2026.
Laconia, New Hampshire, in Belknap County, has about 17,000 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 Belknap County Superior 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: Laconia public records, Belknap County arrest records, New Hampshire arrest records and New Hampshire inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Laconia
The FBI lists Laconia with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Laconia Police Department. It reported 1,093 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 Belknap County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 390 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Belknap County: the Belknap County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Laconia 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.
- Laconia: 1,093 for 2025, 1,066 for 2024, 1,027 for 2023, 1,151 for 2022, 1,153 for 2021 and 1,011 for 2020.
Laconia's 1,093 arrests in 2025 were up 2.5 percent from 1,066 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Laconia reported 756 arrests, against 779 in the same months of 2025.
Across Belknap County, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,111 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Laconia Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Laconia 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 91 people, down from about 93 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 144 beds, and it ran at 63 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 Belknap County Sheriff's Office at belknapcounty.gov/212/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Belknap County, NH), phone 603-527-5454, 42 County Dr Laconia, NH 03246, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at business.nh.gov/inmate_locator.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Laconia
For Laconia the place to look is the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at belknapcounty.gov/221/County-Attorney, phone 603-527-5440).
New Hampshire does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit 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 Laconia
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 New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Laconia police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at laconianh.gov/231/Request-a-Report (page title: Request a Report | Laconia, NH), phone 603-524-5257, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Belknap County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 603-527-5454.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 603-527-5440, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a notarized request to the Criminal Records Unit.
The Belknap County guide covers every agency in the county: Belknap County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Laconia each year?
Laconia reported 1,093 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Laconia?
Ask the Belknap County Sheriff's Office at 603-527-5454; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at belknapcounty.gov/212/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Laconia booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Belknap County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Laconia?
The court files of criminal cases in the Belknap County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Laconia?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Laconia police for its own arrests, the Belknap County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Laconia 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.