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 23, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Belmar, New Jersey, in Monmouth County, has about 5,800 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 Prosecutor files charges, a case in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County. 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: Belmar public records, Monmouth County arrest records, New Jersey arrest records and New Jersey inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Belmar
The FBI lists Belmar with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Belmar Police Department. It reported 197 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 Monmouth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 972 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Monmouth County: Monmouth University and Brookdale Community College (campus police); Prosecutor in Monmouth County (other); the Monmouth County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Belmar 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.
- Belmar: 197 for 2025, 231 for 2024, 227 for 2023, 203 for 2020 and 430 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Belmar's 197 arrests in 2025 were down 15 percent from 231 in 2024.
Across Monmouth County, the 38 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,853 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Belmar Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Belmar 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 460 people, down from about 550 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,326 beds, and it ran at 35 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office at mcsonj.org/inmate-search-2 (page title: inmate search), phone (732) 577-8700, 2500 Kozloski Rd Freehold, NJ 07721, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the New Jersey Department of Corrections lists its inmates at www20.state.nj.us/DOC_Inmate/inmatefinder?i=I.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Belmar
Whether someone was arrested in Belmar, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; New Jersey Courts Public Access, the Judiciary's free online case search for civil and criminal cases, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Prosecutor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at njoag.gov/news).
New Jersey does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Jersey State Police 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 Belmar
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 Open Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying at 5 cents a page for letter size.
- An arrest by the Belmar police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at belmarpolice.com/divisions/records (page title: Belmar Police Department | Belmar Records Department), phone (732) 681-1700, 601 Main Street Belmar, NJ 07719, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (732) 577-8700.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Prosecutor handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at monmouthcountynj.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the State Police.
The Monmouth County guide covers every agency in the county: Monmouth County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Belmar each year?
Belmar reported 197 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Belmar?
Look on the custody page of the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office at mcsonj.org/inmate-search-2, or call (732) 577-8700. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Belmar booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Belmar?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Jersey State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Open Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Belmar?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Belmar police for its own arrests, the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Open Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at monmouthcountynj.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Belmar 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.