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 on September 23, 2026.
Gloucester County, New Jersey, has about 312,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office, 24 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, Gloucester 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: Gloucester County public records, New Jersey arrest records, New Jersey inmate search and New Jersey criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gloucester County
The Gloucester County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gloucester County. It reported 607 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists 11 cities in Gloucester County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Glassboro, 24,322 residents: 1,046 arrests reported for 2025.
- Woodbury, 10,138 residents: 142 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clayton, 9,016 residents: 162 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pitman, 8,943 residents: 83 arrests reported for 2025.
- Paulsboro, 6,316 residents: 327 arrests reported for 2025.
- Westville, 4,350 residents: 73 arrests reported for 2025.
- Woodbury Heights, 3,155 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2022.
- National Park, 3,085 residents: 173 arrests reported for 2020.
- Swedesboro, 2,766 residents: 13 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wenonah, 2,328 residents: 19 arrests reported for 2020.
- Newfield, 1,812 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Gloucester County: Rowan University (campus police); Prosecutor in Gloucester County (other); the Gloucester County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Gloucester 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.
- Glassboro: 1,046 for 2025, 650 for 2024, 881 for 2023, 728 for 2022, 843 for 2020 and 2,076 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Washington Township: 798 for 2025, 597 for 2023, 457 for 2022 and 2,060 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Deptford Township: 729 for 2025, 572 for 2023, 523 for 2022, 877 for 2020 and 1,354 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Monroe Township: 660 for 2025, 695 for 2024, 670 for 2023, 567 for 2022, 993 for 2020 and 1,045 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- West Deptford Township: 544 for 2025, 613 for 2024, 596 for 2023, 929 for 2020 and 2,275 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Mantua Township: 357 for 2025, 381 for 2024, 302 for 2023, 190 for 2022, 460 for 2020 and 718 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Franklin Township: 336 for 2025, 336 for 2024, 443 for 2023, 429 for 2022, 473 for 2020 and 1,049 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Paulsboro: 327 for 2025, 275 for 2024, 252 for 2023, 272 for 2022, 474 for 2020 and 509 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Harrison Township: 214 for 2025, 159 for 2024, 160 for 2023, 130 for 2022, 253 for 2020 and 337 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Elk Township: 184 for 2025, 210 for 2024, 204 for 2023, 131 for 2022 and 76 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Logan Township: 176 for 2025, 127 for 2024, 134 for 2023, 78 for 2022, 109 for 2020 and 166 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Greenwich Township: 163 for 2025, 212 for 2023, 168 for 2022, 115 for 2020 and 269 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the 20 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,246 arrests that year. The 15 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,437 in 2025 against 3,424 in 2024, up 0.4 percent.
Through August 2026, the 16 agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,269 arrests, against 3,903 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gloucester County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gloucester 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 2020 the jail held about 160 people. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at www20.state.nj.us/DOC_Inmate/inmatefinder?i=I.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gloucester County
Whether someone was arrested in Gloucester County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at nj.gov/state/archives/catcglclerk.html); the County Prosecutor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at gloucestercountynj.gov/m/directory/department?did=69, phone 856-384-5500).
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 Gloucester County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Gloucester County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Glassboro, Woodbury, Clayton, Pitman, Paulsboro, Westville 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 Rowan University, Prosecutor in Gloucester County or the Gloucester 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, 856-384-5500, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, through the court records page at nj.gov/state/archives/catcglclerk.html.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gloucestercountynj.gov (page title: OPRA REQUEST INFORMATION | Gloucester County, NJ).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the State Police.
Cities in Gloucester County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the 11 cities in Gloucester County: Glassboro, Woodbury, Clayton, Pitman, Paulsboro, Westville, Woodbury Heights, National Park, Swedesboro, Wenonah and Newfield. The FBI's list also carries the West Deptford Township Police Department, the Deptford Township Police Department, the East Greenwich Township Police Department and ten more as city agencies in Gloucester County; West Deptford Township, Deptford Township, East Greenwich Township and ten 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, Gloucester County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Gloucester 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 Gloucester County each year?
Glassboro reported 1,046 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 20 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 6,246 between them.
Where are people arrested in Gloucester County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gloucester County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester 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 Gloucester County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gloucester 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 gloucestercountynj.gov.
Is this the official Gloucester 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.