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 28, 2026.

About this guide

Camden County, New Jersey, has about 534,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Camden County Sheriff's Office, 37 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, Camden 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: Camden County public records, New Jersey arrest records, New Jersey inmate search and New Jersey 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 940 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists 29 cities in Camden County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Camden, 71,749 residents: 10,735 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lindenwold, 21,919 residents: 432 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Collingswood, 14,344 residents: 143 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Haddonfield, 12,707 residents: 125 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bellmawr, 11,846 residents: 746 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Gloucester City, 11,618 residents: 443 arrests reported for 2023.
  • Pine Hill, 10,894 residents: 149 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Audubon, 8,801 residents: 191 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Runnemede, 8,425 residents: 144 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Berlin, 7,614 residents: 219 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Berlin (township), 7,614 residents: 289 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Haddon Heights, 7,588 residents: 214 arrests reported for 2025.

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 Camden County: Rutgers University at Camden (campus police); Prosecutor in Camden County (other); the Camden County State Police (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Camden County

Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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: 10,735 for 2025, 9,810 for 2024, 8,042 for 2023, 6,994 for 2022, 7,764 for 2020 and 8,671 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Cherry Hill Township: 2,023 for 2025, 2,125 for 2024, 1,804 for 2022, 2,095 for 2020 and 3,684 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
  • Gloucester Township: 943 for 2025, 880 for 2024, 770 for 2023, 897 for 2022, 1,082 for 2021 and 2,007 for 2020.
  • Camden County Sheriff's Office: 940 for 2025, 840 for 2024, 950 for 2023, 1,098 for 2022, 1,834 for 2020 and 4,412 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Bellmawr: 746 for 2025, 817 for 2024, 681 for 2023, 649 for 2022, 420 for 2020 and 1,137 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Pennsauken Township: 641 for 2025, 403 for 2024, 301 for 2023, 266 for 2022, 1,184 for 2020 and 1,699 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Winslow Township: 489 for 2025 and 1,723 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
  • Lindenwold: 432 for 2025, 405 for 2024, 351 for 2023, 474 for 2022, 950 for 2020 and 969 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Barrington: 362 for 2025, 325 for 2024, 249 for 2023, 202 for 2022 and 467 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
  • Berlin (township): 289 for 2025, 290 for 2024, 225 for 2023, 378 for 2020 and 470 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Brooklawn: 242 for 2025, 191 for 2024, 136 for 2022, 452 for 2020 and 578 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
  • Somerdale: 238 for 2025, 253 for 2024, 261 for 2023, 245 for 2022, 150 for 2020 and 279 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Together, the 30 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 20,548 arrests that year. The 26 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 19,278 in 2025 against 18,619 in 2024, up 3.5 percent.

Through June 2026, the 25 agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,899 arrests, against 4,252 in the same months of 2025.

Audubon Park, Gloucester City, Laurel Springs and Pine Hill reported only part of 2025 (1 month, 6 months, 6 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

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 860 people, down from about 870 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,273 beds, and it ran at 66 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 camdencounty.com/service/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Camden County, NJ), phone (856)225-5531, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.

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 Camden County

Whether someone was arrested in Camden County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courtrecord.net/camden-nj-courts, phone 856-757-7100); the County Prosecutor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at camdencounty.com/contact/prosecutor-grace-macaulay, phone (856) 225-8400).

Statewide, New Jersey Courts Public Access is the Judiciary's free online case search for civil and criminal cases.

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 Camden 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 Camden County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (856)225-5531.
  • An arrest in Camden, Lindenwold, Collingswood, Haddonfield, Bellmawr, Gloucester City 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 Rutgers University at Camden, Prosecutor in Camden County or the Camden 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, (856) 225-8400, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden County, through the court records page at courtrecord.net/camden-nj-courts, phone 856-757-7100.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at camdennj.gov/open-public-records-act-opra (page title: Open Public Records Act (OPRA) | The City of Camden).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the State Police.

Cities in Camden County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 29 of the 28 cities in Camden County: the twelve named above and Stratford, Barrington, Somerdale, Clementon, Mount Ephraim, Magnolia, Merchantville, Oaklyn, Lawnside, Woodlynne, Gibbsboro, Laurel Springs, Brooklawn, Chesilhurst, Audubon Park, Hi-Nella and Tavistock. The FBI's list also carries the Cherry Hill Township Police Department, the Gloucester Township Police Department, the Haddon Township Police Department and five more as city agencies in Camden County; Cherry Hill Township, Gloucester Township, Haddon Township and five 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, Camden County.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Camden 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 Camden County each year?

Camden reported 10,735 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 30 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 20,548 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Camden County?

Ask the Camden County Sheriff's Office at (856)225-5531; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at camdencounty.com/service/sheriffs-office.

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 Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden 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 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 Open Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at camdennj.gov/open-public-records-act-opra.

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.