Hoover Police Department
City agency in Jefferson County, Shelby County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 93,094 (FBI figure, 2025)
- City or town
- Hoover city (the Census place its FBI map point falls in)
- Counties
- Jefferson CountyShelby County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2006.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- AL0011200
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
After a warrantless arrest, a police officer may release a person on a bond from the statewide bail schedule. Otherwise a magistrate, often a court clerk who need not be a lawyer, sets bail from the schedule; magistrates can't go above the schedule's top amount without a judge, and can release without money only on misdemeanors. Charges such as capital murder and the serious violent offenses listed in Aniah's Law can be held for a judge.
Ala. R. Crim. P. 4.3Ala. R. Crim. P. 7.2Ala. R. Jud. Admin. 18- Time to see a judge
A judge or magistrate must decide probable cause after a warrantless arrest without undue delay and within 48 hours. If no one does, the person must be released on the schedule's minimum bond or on recognizance, unless the charge isn't bailable.
Ala. R. Crim. P. 4.3(a)(1)(iii)
Crime and arrests
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