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 25, 2026.
Tipp City, Ohio, in Miami County, has about 11,000 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 Miami 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: Tipp City public records, Miami County arrest records, Ohio arrest records and Ohio inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Tipp City
The FBI lists Tipp City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Tipp City Police Department. It reported 88 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 Miami County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 459 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Miami County: the Miami County Park District (other).
How Many Arrests Tipp City 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.
- Tipp City: 88 for 2025, 188 for 2023, 158 for 2022 and 175 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
Through June 2026, Tipp City reported 31 arrests, against 42 in the same months of 2025.
Across Miami County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,105 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tipp City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tipp City 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 2023 the jail held about 150 people, down from about 200 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 295 beds, and it ran at 52 percent of it that year. 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 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, whose inmate locator is at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Tipp City
For Tipp City the place to look is the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at miamicountyohio.gov/prosecuting-attorney, phone (937) 440-3928).
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 Tipp City
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 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 Tipp City police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at tippcityohio.gov/318/Forms-Documents (page title: Forms & Documents | Tipp City, OH), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Miami County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (937) 440-3928, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
The Miami County guide covers every agency in the county: Miami County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tipp City each year?
Tipp City reported 88 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Tipp City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Miami County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tipp City?
The court files of criminal cases in the Miami 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 Tipp City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tipp City police for its own arrests, the Miami 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.
Is this the official Tipp City 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.