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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Tecumseh, Oklahoma, in Pottawatomie County, has about 6,400 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 Pottawatomie 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: Tecumseh public records, Pottawatomie County arrest records, Oklahoma arrest records and Oklahoma inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Tecumseh
The FBI lists Tecumseh with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Tecumseh Police Department. It reported 155 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 Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 230 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Pottawatomie County: District Attorneys Council at Drug Task Force 23 (other).
How Many Arrests Tecumseh 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.
- Tecumseh: 155 for 2025, 141 for 2024, 145 for 2023, 235 for 2022, 228 for 2021 and 196 for 2020.
Tecumseh's 155 arrests in 2025 were up 9.9 percent from 141 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Tecumseh reported 95 arrests, against 103 in the same months of 2025.
Across Pottawatomie County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 888 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tecumseh Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Tecumseh 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 2024 the jail held about 320 people, up from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 366 beds, and it ran at 96 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Tecumseh
For Tecumseh the place to look is the case index of the Pottawatomie County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at oscn.net/dockets/Search.aspx).
Statewide, OSCN and ODCR is the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
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 Tecumseh
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 Tecumseh police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at tecumsehok.org/government/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Tecumseh, OK), phone 405-598-2115, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pottawatomie County District Court, through the court records page at oscn.net/dockets/Search.aspx.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Pottawatomie County guide covers every agency in the county: Pottawatomie County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tecumseh each year?
Tecumseh reported 155 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Tecumseh booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tecumseh?
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 Tecumseh?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tecumseh police for its own arrests, the Pottawatomie 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 Tecumseh 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.