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 25, 2026.
Cedar Hill, Texas, in Dallas County, has about 50,000 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 files charges, a case in the Dallas County District 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: Cedar Hill public records, Dallas County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cedar Hill
The FBI lists Cedar Hill with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cedar Hill Police Department. It reported 740 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 Dallas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 271 arrests for 2024.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Dallas County: the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School, the University of Texas at Dallas, Baylor Health Care System, Southern Methodist University and three more (campus police); the Dallas County Constable's Precincts 5, 3, 2, 4 and 1, the Dallas County Hospital District, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the Dallas Independent School District and five more (other).
How Many Arrests Cedar Hill Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Cedar Hill: 740 for 2025, 835 for 2024, 853 for 2023, 717 for 2022, 818 for 2021 and 734 for 2020.
Cedar Hill's 740 arrests in 2025 were down 11 percent from 835 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Cedar Hill reported 501 arrests, against 488 in the same months of 2025.
Across Dallas County, the 24 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 56,729 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cedar Hill Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cedar Hill 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 7,110 people on an average day, up from about 5,240 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 7,364 beds, and it is running at 97 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Dallas County Sheriff's Office at dallascounty.org/departments/sheriff/inmate-information (page title: Inmate Information | Sheriff Department), phone (214) 749-8641, 133 N. Riverfront Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75207, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, whose inmate locator is at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cedar Hill
An arrest in Cedar Hill can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dallas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dallascounty.org/government/district-attorney, phone (214) 653-3600).
Texas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3 a search, through the Texas Department of Public Safety. 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 Cedar Hill
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 Texas Public Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, and it may charge the copy rates set by the Attorney General, plus labor for large requests.
- An arrest by the Cedar Hill police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ci.cedarhill.tx.us/73/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records | Cedar Hill, TX), phone (972) 291-5307, 285 Uptown Boulevard Cedar Hill, TX 75104, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (214) 749-8641.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (214) 653-3600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dallascounty.org (page title: County Clerk | Central Records Division | Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Dallas County guide covers every agency in the county: Dallas County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cedar Hill each year?
Cedar Hill reported 740 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cedar Hill?
Look on the custody page of the Dallas County Sheriff's Office at dallascounty.org, or call (214) 749-8641. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Cedar Hill booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cedar Hill?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Texas Public Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cedar Hill?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cedar Hill police for its own arrests, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dallascounty.org.
Is this the official Cedar Hill 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.