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 2024. 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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Durant, Oklahoma, in Bryan County, has about 21,000 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Bryan County District Court. 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: Durant public records, Bryan County arrest records, Oklahoma arrest records and Oklahoma inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Durant
The FBI lists Durant with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Durant Police Department. It reported 939 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Bryan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 77 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bryan County: Victory Life and Colbert Campus (other); Southeastern Oklahoma State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Durant Reports
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.
- Durant: 939 for 2024, 788 for 2023, 732 for 2022, 662 for 2021, 2,016 for 2020 and 2,118 for 2019.
Durant's 939 arrests in 2024 were up 19 percent from 788 in 2023.
Across Bryan County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 242 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Durant Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Durant 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 100 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2020, the last year with a capacity figure, was 159 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Bryan County Sheriff's Office at bryancountyso.com/inmate-search.php (page title: Inmate Search | Bryan County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists its inmates at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Durant
An arrest in Durant can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Bryan County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; OSCN and ODCR, the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court, which shows whether charges were filed.
Oklahoma is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15 a search, through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Durant
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 Oklahoma Open Records Act the agency must answer promptly; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge copying at no more than 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Durant police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at durant.org/415/Records (page title: Records | Durant, OK), phone 580-924-3748, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Bryan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Bryan County guide covers every agency in the county: Bryan County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Durant each year?
Durant reported 939 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Durant?
Look on the custody page of the Bryan County Sheriff's Office at bryancountyso.com/inmate-search.php, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Durant booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bryan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Durant?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Durant?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Durant police for its own arrests, the Bryan County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Durant 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.