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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in Cumberland County, has about 5,600 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 Cumberland 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: Shippensburg public records, Cumberland County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Shippensburg
The FBI lists Shippensburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Shippensburg Police Department. It reported 86 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 26 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Cumberland County: Dickinson College, Pennsylvania State University at Carlisle and Shippensburg University (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Kings Gap Environmental Education Center, the Bureau of Forestry in Cumberland County, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Cumberland County, the State Park Rangers at Colonel Denning and one more (state agency); the Cumberland Valley School District, the Big Spring School District and Cumberland County District Attorney (other); the Cumberland County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Shippensburg 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.
- Shippensburg: 86 for 2025, 163 for 2024, 127 for 2023, 127 for 2022, 112 for 2021 and 98 for 2020.
Shippensburg's 86 arrests in 2025 were down 47 percent from 163 in 2024.
Across Cumberland County, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,379 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Shippensburg Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Shippensburg 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 340 people, down from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 720 beds, and it ran at 48 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office at inmates.cumberlandcounty.revize.com/bookings (page title: Inmate Locator | Cumberland_County_ME_Inmates_App), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Shippensburg
Whether someone was arrested in Shippensburg, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; UJS Web Portal, the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Shippensburg
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 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 Shippensburg police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at borough.shippensburg.pa.us/Departments/Police (page title: Shippensburg Borough, Shippensburg, PA > Departments > Police), phone 717-532-2147, 111 N. Fayette Street, Shippensburg, PA 17257, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcountypa.gov (page title: Open Records Office | Cumberland County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Cumberland County guide covers every agency in the county: Cumberland County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Shippensburg each year?
Shippensburg reported 86 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Shippensburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Shippensburg?
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 Shippensburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Shippensburg police for its own arrests, the Cumberland 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 cumberlandcountypa.gov.
Is this the official Shippensburg 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.