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 1, 2026.
Kermit, Texas, in Winkler County, has about 5,900 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 Winkler 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: Kermit public records, Winkler County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Kermit
The FBI lists Kermit with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Kermit Police Department. It reported 56 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 Winkler County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 52 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Winkler County: the Wink-Loving Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Kermit 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.
- Kermit: 56 for 2025, 88 for 2023, 169 for 2020 and 399 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
Through March 2026, Kermit reported 12 arrests, against 8 in the same months of 2025.
Across Winkler County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 119 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kermit Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Kermit 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 60 people on an average day, down from about 83 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 101 beds, and it is running at 59 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Winkler County Sheriff's Office at co.winkler.tx.us/209/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Winkler County, TX), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
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 Kermit
An arrest in Kermit can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Winkler County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.winkler.tx.us/201/District-Clerk, phone 432-586-3359); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.winkler.tx.us/200/District-Attorney, phone 432-586-3700).
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 Kermit
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Kermit police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at kermittx.gov/160/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Kermit, TX), phone 432-586-2577, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Winkler County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 432-586-3700, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Winkler County District Court, through the court records page at co.winkler.tx.us/201/District-Clerk, phone 432-586-3359.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Winkler County guide covers every agency in the county: Winkler County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kermit each year?
Kermit reported 56 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Kermit booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Winkler County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kermit?
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 Kermit?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kermit police for its own arrests, the Winkler County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Kermit 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.