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 on September 25, 2026.
Wichita Falls, Texas, in Wichita County, has about 102,000 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 Wichita 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: Wichita Falls public records, Wichita County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Wichita Falls
The FBI lists Wichita Falls with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Wichita Falls Police Department. It reported 2,303 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 Wichita County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 503 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Wichita County: Midwestern State University (campus police); the Wichita County Constable's Precincts 4 and 2, the City View Independent School District, the Burkburnett Independent School District, Wichita Falls Arson Unit and two more (other).
How Many Arrests Wichita Falls 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.
- Wichita Falls: 2,303 for 2025, 1,899 for 2024, 2,069 for 2023, 2,344 for 2022, 2,439 for 2021 and 3,403 for 2020.
Wichita Falls's 2,303 arrests in 2025 were up 21 percent from 1,899 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Wichita Falls reported 1,811 arrests, against 1,426 in the same months of 2025.
Across Wichita County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,080 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wichita Falls Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Wichita Falls 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 560 people on an average day, up from about 480 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 719 beds, and it is running at 77 percent of it. 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 Texas Department of Criminal Justice, whose inmate locator is at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Wichita Falls
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 Wichita Falls
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 Wichita Falls police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at wichitafallstx.gov/1168/Public-Information (page title: Public Information | Wichita Falls, TX), phone (940) 761-7409, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Wichita County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Wichita County guide covers every agency in the county: Wichita County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wichita Falls each year?
Wichita Falls reported 2,303 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Wichita Falls booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wichita County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wichita Falls?
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 Wichita Falls?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wichita Falls police for its own arrests, the Wichita 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 Wichita Falls 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.