Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has about 650,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bucks County Sheriff's Office, 39 city agencies and ten campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Bucks County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bucks County
The Bucks County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bucks County. It reported 9 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists 19 cities in Bucks County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Bristol, 9,982 residents: 208 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bristol (township), 9,982 residents: 1,251 arrests reported for 2025.
- Morrisville, 9,745 residents: 212 arrests reported for 2025.
- Perkasie, 9,338 residents: 141 arrests reported for 2024.
- Quakertown, 9,302 residents: 392 arrests reported for 2024.
- Doylestown, 8,382 residents: 120 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Britain, 2,814 residents: 90 arrests reported for 2024.
- New Hope, 2,641 residents: 19 arrests reported for 2025.
- Yardley, 2,591 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2025.
- Penndel, 2,525 residents: 42 arrests reported for 2025.
- Dublin, 2,278 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
- Newtown (township), 2,272 residents: 186 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Telford Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Bucks County, so its arrests are not broken out for Bucks County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bucks County: the Bucks County State Police (state police); the State Park Rangers at Neshaminy, the State Park Rangers at Delaware Canal, the State Park Rangers at Nockamixon, the State Park Rangers at Tyler and two more (state agency); County Detective in Bucks County and the Bucks County Park Police (other); Delaware Valley University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bucks County
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.
- Bensalem Township: 1,829 for 2025, 2,897 for 2024 and 3,077 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Bristol (township): 1,251 for 2025, 1,171 for 2024 and 1,237 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Falls Township: 900 for 2025, 890 for 2023 and 1,686 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Hilltown Township: 356 for 2025, 335 for 2024, 332 for 2020 and 380 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Warminster Township: 328 for 2025, 296 for 2024 and 602 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Central Bucks Regional: 321 for 2025, 355 for 2024 and 530 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Lower Southampton Township: 298 for 2025, 300 for 2024, 362 for 2020 and 473 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Northampton Township: 239 for 2025, 150 for 2024, 152 for 2020 and 176 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Upper Southampton Township: 229 for 2025, 243 for 2024 and 417 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Morrisville: 212 for 2025, 282 for 2024 and 325 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Bristol: 208 for 2025, 188 for 2024 and 300 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Richlandtown: 190 for 2025, 265 for 2024, 231 for 2023 and 191 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the 30 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,339 arrests that year. The 27 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,262 in 2025 against 7,423 in 2024, down 16 percent.
Lower Makefield Township, Middletown Township, Perkasie, Quakertown and six more reported only part of 2025 (10 months, 11 months, 11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bucks County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bucks County 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 840 people, up from about 740 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,255 beds, and it ran at 67 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Bucks County Sheriff's Office at buckscounty.gov/1956/Bucks-County-Sheriffs-Office (page title: Bucks County Sheriff's Office | Bucks County, PA), phone 215-348-6124, 100 N. Main Street, Floor B2 Doylestown, PA 18901, Monday through Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Bucks County
Whether someone was arrested in Bucks County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: UJS Web Portal, the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search, which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at buckscounty.gov/168/District-Attorney).
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 Bucks County
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 Bucks County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 215-348-6124.
- An arrest in Bristol, Bristol (township), Morrisville, Perkasie, Quakertown, Doylestown or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Bucks County State Police, the State Park Rangers at Neshaminy or the State Park Rangers at Delaware Canal: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at buckscounty.gov/940/Records-Requests (page title: Records Requests | Bucks County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Bucks County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 19 of the 22 cities in Bucks County: the twelve named above and Newtown, Tullytown, Langhorne, Langhorne Manor, Richlandtown, Hulmeville and Ivyland. Sellersville, Chalfont, Trumbauersville, Riegelsville and Silverdale have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Bensalem Township Police Department, Falls Township Police Department, Bucks County, the Lower Makefield Township Police Department and 17 more as city agencies in Bucks County; Bensalem Township, Falls Township, Lower Makefield Township and 17 more are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bucks County each year?
Bensalem Township reported 1,829 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 30 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 7,339 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bucks County?
Ask the Bucks County Sheriff's Office at 215-348-6124; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at buckscounty.gov.
Where are people arrested in Bucks County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bucks County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bucks County?
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 Bucks County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bucks County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 buckscounty.gov/940/Records-Requests.
Is this the official Bucks County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.