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 30, 2026.
Dyersburg, Tennessee, in Dyer County, has about 16,000 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 General files charges, a case in the Dyer County Circuit and Chancery Courts. 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: Dyersburg public records, Dyer County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Dyersburg
The FBI lists Dyersburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Dyersburg Police Department. It reported 1,869 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 Dyer County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 311 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Dyersburg 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.
- Dyersburg: 1,869 for 2025, 1,834 for 2024, 2,026 for 2023, 2,059 for 2022, 1,979 for 2021 and 2,070 for 2020.
Dyersburg's 1,869 arrests in 2025 were up 1.9 percent from 1,834 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Dyersburg reported 1,187 arrests, against 1,227 in the same months of 2025.
Across Dyer County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,324 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dyersburg Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Dyersburg 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 2024 the jail held about 230 people, down from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 236 beds, and it ran at 97 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 Dyer County Sheriff's Office at dyercountysheriff.com/programs/12-crime-stoppers/49-public-jail-roster (page title: Public Jail Roster | Dyer County Sheriff's Office | Tennessee), phone 731.285.2802, 401 East Cedar Street Dyersburg, TN 38024, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Dyersburg
An arrest in Dyersburg can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dyer County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Dyer County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tncourts.gov/clerks/all/all?tid=23); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-29).
Tennessee is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29 a search, through the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. 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 Dyersburg
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 Tennessee Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying, and labor after the first hour.
- An arrest by the Dyersburg police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at dyersburgtn.gov/m/directory/department?did=19 (page title: Staff Directory, Police Department), phone 731-285-4019, 8329 Physical Address 425 W Market Street Dyersburg, TN 38024, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Dyer County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 731.285.2802.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Dyer County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/clerks/all/all?tid=23.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Dyer County guide covers every agency in the county: Dyer County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dyersburg each year?
Dyersburg reported 1,869 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dyersburg?
Look on the custody page of the Dyer County Sheriff's Office at dyercountysheriff.com, or call 731.285.2802. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Dyersburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dyer County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dyersburg?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Tennessee Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Dyersburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dyersburg police for its own arrests, the Dyer County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days.
Is this the official Dyersburg 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.