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.
Lansdale, Pennsylvania, in Montgomery County, has about 19,000 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 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: Lansdale public records, Montgomery County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lansdale
The FBI lists Lansdale with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lansdale Police Department. It reported 286 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 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Montgomery County: the State Park Rangers at Evansburg, the State Park Rangers at Fort Washington, the Bureau of Forestry at Montgomery and the Office of Attorney General Region 1 in Montgomery County (state agency); Pennsylvania State University at Abington (campus police); the Methacton School District and County Detective in Montgomery County (other); the Skippack State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Lansdale 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.
- Lansdale: 286 for 2025, 328 for 2024, 368 for 2023, 401 for 2020 and 440 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Lansdale's 286 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 328 in 2024.
Across Montgomery County, the 39 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11,275 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lansdale Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lansdale 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 2024 the jail held about 940 people, down from about 1,580 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 2,080 beds, and it ran at 43 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 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists its inmates at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lansdale
Whether someone was arrested in Lansdale, 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 montgomerycountypa.gov/departments/clerk-courts/clerk-courts-court-...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at montgomerycountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 610-278-3090).
Statewide, UJS Web Portal is the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search.
Pennsylvania is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22 a search, through the Pennsylvania State Police. 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 Lansdale
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Lansdale police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at crimewatch.net/us/pa/montgomery/lansdale-boro-pd/134330/content/rig... (page title: RIGHT-TO-KNOW REQUESTS | Lansdale Borough Police Department), phone 215-393-6155, 333 Market Street, 16th Floor Harrisburg, PA 17101-2234, 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 District Attorney, 610-278-3090, 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 montgomerycountypa.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountypa.gov (page title: Records Requests | Montgomery County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Montgomery County guide covers every agency in the county: Montgomery County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lansdale each year?
Lansdale reported 286 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lansdale?
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 Lansdale 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 Lansdale?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Pennsylvania State Police: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Right-to-Know Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Lansdale?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lansdale police for its own arrests, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountypa.gov.
Is this the official Lansdale 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.