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 26, 2026.
Savannah, Tennessee, in Hardin County, has about 7,600 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 General files charges, a case in the Hardin 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: Savannah public records, Hardin County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Savannah
The FBI lists Savannah with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Savannah Police Department. It reported 515 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 Hardin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 793 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Savannah 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.
- Savannah: 515 for 2025, 522 for 2024, 559 for 2023, 567 for 2022, 612 for 2021 and 647 for 2020.
Savannah's 515 arrests in 2025 were down 1.3 percent from 522 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Savannah reported 267 arrests, against 371 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hardin County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,308 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Savannah Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Savannah and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 26 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 87 beds, and it ran at 30 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Tennessee Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Savannah
Whether someone was arrested in Savannah, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Hardin 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/node/9782345); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-24/our-staff, phone (931)962-1144).
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 Savannah
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 Savannah police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofsavannah.org/police-department/request-a-police-report (page title: Request a Police Report), phone 731-925-3200, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hardin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, (931)962-1144, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hardin County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782345.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hardin County guide covers every agency in the county: Hardin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Savannah each year?
Savannah reported 515 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Savannah booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hardin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Savannah?
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 Savannah?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Savannah police for its own arrests, the Hardin 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 Savannah 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.