SearchSystems Editorial

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 September 24, 2026.

About this guide

Bergen County, New Jersey, has about 979,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bergen County Sheriff's Office, 70 city agencies and three campus, state or other agencies. 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 County Prosecutor files charges, a case in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County. 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, cities and common questions.

Related guides: Bergen County public records, New Jersey arrest records, New Jersey inmate search and New Jersey criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Bergen County

The Bergen County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bergen County. It reported 795 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 61 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Hackensack, 46,630 residents: 404 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Fort Lee, 40,566 residents: 231 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Fair Lawn, 36,489 residents: 355 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Garfield, 33,530 residents: 316 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Englewood, 30,221 residents: 346 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bergenfield, 28,921 residents: 76 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Paramus, 26,786 residents: 676 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Ridgewood, 26,701 residents: 135 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lodi, 26,358 residents: 292 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cliffside Park, 26,183 residents: 225 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Elmwood Park, 21,680 residents: 226 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Palisades Park, 20,520 residents: 151 arrests reported for 2024.

A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bergen County: Palisades Interstate Parkway (state agency); Prosecutor in Bergen County (other); the Bergen County State Police (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bergen County

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.

  • Bergen County Sheriff's Office: 795 for 2025, 683 for 2024, 505 for 2023, 426 for 2022, 536 for 2020 and 1,004 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Paramus: 676 for 2025, 801 for 2024, 555 for 2023, 521 for 2022 and 1,072 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
  • Hackensack: 404 for 2025, 435 for 2024, 363 for 2023, 286 for 2022, 822 for 2020 and 1,136 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Teaneck Township: 396 for 2025, 322 for 2024, 306 for 2023, 275 for 2022, 189 for 2021 and 465 for 2020.
  • Englewood: 346 for 2025, 350 for 2024, 342 for 2023, 282 for 2022, 218 for 2021 and 363 for 2020.
  • Garfield: 316 for 2025, 272 for 2024, 280 for 2023, 162 for 2022, 605 for 2020 and 947 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Lodi: 292 for 2025, 260 for 2024, 218 for 2023, 156 for 2022, 107 for 2021 and 174 for 2020.
  • Fort Lee: 231 for 2025, 230 for 2024, 334 for 2023, 338 for 2022, 212 for 2021 and 635 for 2020.
  • Elmwood Park: 226 for 2025, 189 for 2024, 139 for 2023, 103 for 2022, 122 for 2021 and 680 for 2020.
  • Cliffside Park: 225 for 2025, 220 for 2024, 208 for 2023, 181 for 2022, 276 for 2020 and 382 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Lyndhurst Township: 217 for 2025, 239 for 2024, 173 for 2023, 178 for 2022, 211 for 2021 and 485 for 2020.
  • Ramsey: 198 for 2025, 186 for 2024, 99 for 2023, 124 for 2022, 267 for 2020 and 223 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Together, the 59 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,999 arrests that year. The 55 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,951 in 2025 against 6,908 in 2024, up 0.6 percent.

Through April 2026, the 45 agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,836 arrests, against 1,724 in the same months of 2025.

Leonia, Little Ferry, Mahwah Township, Palisades Park and six more reported only part of 2025 (10 months, 2 months, 11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Bergen County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bergen County 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 2021 the jail held about 400 people, down from about 860 in 2018. Its rated capacity in 2018, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,297 beds, and it ran at 67 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 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 Bergen County

An arrest in Bergen County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 bergencountynj.gov/prosecutor, phone 201-336-6000).

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 Bergen County

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 Bergen County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Hackensack, Fort Lee, Fair Lawn, Garfield, Englewood, Bergenfield or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by Palisades Interstate Parkway, Prosecutor in Bergen County or the Bergen County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Prosecutor, 201-336-6000, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bergencountynj.gov (page title: Submit An OPRA Request | Bergen County, NJ).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the State Police.

Cities in Bergen County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the 61 cities in Bergen County: the twelve named above and Rutherford, Dumont, New Milford, North Arlington, Fairview, Tenafly, Edgewater, Ramsey, Ridgefield Park, Oakland, Glen Rock, Hasbrouck Heights, River Edge, Wallington, Ridgefield, Westwood, Franklin Lakes, Little Ferry, East Rutherford, Wood-Ridge, Waldwick, Hillsdale, Maywood, Bogota, Montvale, Park Ridge, Leonia, Cresskill, Closter, Upper Saddle River, Oradell, Emerson, Midland Park, Allendale, Carlstadt, Old Tappan, Woodcliff Lake, Norwood, Englewood Cliffs, Harrington Park, Northvale, Demarest, Ho-Ho-Kus, Haworth, Saddle River, Moonachie, Alpine, Rockleigh and Teterboro. The FBI's list also carries the Lyndhurst Township Police Department, the Mahwah Township Police Department, the River Vale Township Police Department and six more as city agencies in Bergen County; Lyndhurst Township, Mahwah Township, River Vale Township and six more are not among the cities above.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bergen County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Bergen County each year?

The Bergen County Sheriff's Office reported 795 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 59 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 6,999 between them.

Where are people arrested in Bergen County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bergen County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Bergen County?

The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen 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 Bergen County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Bergen County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Open Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bergencountynj.gov.

Is this the official Bergen 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.