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 between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, has about 276,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, 15 city agencies and 12 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 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 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: Cumberland County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cumberland County. It reported 26 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Cumberland County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Carlisle, 22,517 residents: 712 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mechanicsburg, 10,085 residents: 216 arrests reported for 2025.
- Camp Hill, 8,231 residents: 130 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Cumberland, 7,625 residents: 49 arrests reported for 2025.
- Shippensburg, 5,638 residents: 86 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mount Holly Springs, 2,024 residents: 27 arrests reported for 2024.
- Shiremanstown, 1,669 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2024.
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 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 Each Agency Reports in Cumberland 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.
- Lower Allen Township: 919 for 2025, 954 for 2024, 975 for 2023 and 902 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Carlisle: 712 for 2025, 730 for 2024, 725 for 2023, 534 for 2022, 632 for 2021 and 566 for 2020.
- East Pennsboro Township: 369 for 2025, 393 for 2024, 431 for 2023, 285 for 2022, 224 for 2021 and 154 for 2020.
- West Shore Regional: 311 for 2025, 370 for 2024, 320 for 2023, 289 for 2022, 455 for 2021 and 557 for 2020.
- Middlesex Township: 239 for 2025 and 230 for 2024.
- Mechanicsburg: 216 for 2025, 227 for 2024, 323 for 2020 and 366 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Silver Spring Township: 144 for 2025, 125 for 2024, 87 for 2023, 59 for 2022 and 64 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Camp Hill: 130 for 2025, 164 for 2024, 137 for 2023, 134 for 2022, 125 for 2021 and 119 for 2020.
- Shippensburg: 86 for 2025, 163 for 2024, 127 for 2023, 127 for 2022, 112 for 2021 and 98 for 2020.
- North Middleton Township: 70 for 2025, 79 for 2024 and 154 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Upper Allen Township: 64 for 2025, 55 for 2024, 54 for 2023, 53 for 2022, 79 for 2021 and 53 for 2020.
- New Cumberland: 49 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 41 for 2023, 47 for 2022, 62 for 2021 and 64 for 2020.
Together, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,379 arrests that year. The 13 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,335 in 2025 against 3,556 in 2024, down 6.2 percent.
Shiremanstown and Mount Holly Springs reported only part of 2025 (11 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumberland County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cumberland 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 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 Cumberland County
Whether someone was arrested in Cumberland County, 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, New Cumberland, Shippensburg, Mount Holly Springs or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Dickinson College, the State Park Rangers at Kings Gap Environmental Education Center or the Cumberland Valley School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Cumberland County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the 11 cities in Cumberland County: Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, New Cumberland, Shippensburg, Mount Holly Springs and Shiremanstown. Lemoyne, Wormleysburg, Newville and Newburg have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the West Shore Regional Police Department, the Lower Allen Township Police Department, Middlesex Township Police Department, Cumberland County and five more as city agencies in Cumberland County; West Shore Regional, Lower Allen Township, Middlesex Township and five 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 Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cumberland County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Shippensburg (5,638)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumberland County each year?
Lower Allen Township reported 919 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 14 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,379 between them.
Where are people arrested in Cumberland County 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumberland 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 cumberlandcountypa.gov.
Is this the official Cumberland 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.