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 28, 2026.
Kettering, Ohio, in Montgomery County, has about 57,000 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. 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: Kettering public records, Montgomery County arrest records, Ohio arrest records and Ohio inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Kettering
The FBI lists Kettering with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Kettering Police Department. It reported 1,225 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,361 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Montgomery County: Sinclair Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Kettering 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.
- Kettering: 1,225 for 2025, 1,212 for 2024, 1,339 for 2023, 1,444 for 2022, 1,690 for 2020 and 3,302 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Kettering's 1,225 arrests in 2025 were up 1.1 percent from 1,212 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Kettering reported 672 arrests, against 773 in the same months of 2025.
Across Montgomery County, the 17 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 14,182 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kettering Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Kettering 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 580 people, down from about 800 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 443 beds, and it ran at 131 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com/Home/CurrentInmates (page title: Current Inmates | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction lists its inmates at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Kettering
Whether someone was arrested in Kettering, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountyauditors.org/clerk-of-courts-search-montgomery-ohio, phone (937) 225-4326); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mcohio.org/740/Prosecutor, phone 937-225-5623).
Ohio does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation 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 Kettering
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Ohio Public Records Act the agency must answer promptly, within a reasonable period of time, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Kettering police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ketteringoh.org/police-records (page title: Police Records | Kettering), phone (937) 296-2555, Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 937-225-5623, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at montgomerycountyauditors.org, phone (937) 225-4326.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mcohiosheriff.org (page title: Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
The Montgomery County guide covers every agency in the county: Montgomery County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kettering each year?
Kettering reported 1,225 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kettering?
Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Kettering booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kettering?
The court files of criminal cases in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Ohio Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Kettering?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kettering police for its own arrests, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Ohio Public Records Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable period of time; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mcohiosheriff.org.
Is this the official Kettering 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.