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.
Hanahan, South Carolina, in Berkeley County, has about 22,000 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 Solicitor files charges, a case in the Berkeley County Circuit 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: Hanahan public records, Berkeley County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Hanahan
The FBI lists Hanahan with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hanahan Police Department. It reported 458 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 Berkeley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,197 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Berkeley County: the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Berkeley County, the Berkeley County State Transport Police, Santee Cooper, Berkeley County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and two more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Berkeley County (state police).
How Many Arrests Hanahan 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.
- Hanahan: 458 for 2025, 282 for 2024, 414 for 2023, 448 for 2022, 429 for 2021 and 348 for 2020.
Hanahan's 458 arrests in 2025 were up 62 percent from 282 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Hanahan reported 223 arrests, against 219 in the same months of 2025.
Across Berkeley County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,289 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hanahan Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hanahan 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 2021 the jail held about 360 people, down from about 390 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 291 beds, and it ran at 133 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 Berkeley County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.berkeleycountysc.gov/report/inmate-lookup (page title: Inmate Lookup | Berkeley County Sheriff's Office), 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the South Carolina Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hanahan
For Hanahan the place to look is the custody page of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail.
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. 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 Hanahan
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 South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Hanahan police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofhanahan.com/police (page title: Police | Hanahan, SC), phone (843) 576-5865, 1255 Yeamans Hall Rd Hanahan, SC 29410, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Berkeley County guide covers every agency in the county: Berkeley County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hanahan each year?
Hanahan reported 458 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Hanahan booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hanahan?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Hanahan?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hanahan police for its own arrests, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old.
Is this the official Hanahan 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.