Surprise Police Department
City agency in Maricopa County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 173,922 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Maricopa County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2020.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- AZ0072700
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
A judicial officer sets release at the initial appearance. In Maricopa County, superior court commissioners, who are appointed lawyers, run the initial appearance court; elsewhere justices of the peace and municipal judges often do it. Arizona has no general jail bail schedule, though police may cite and release people for many misdemeanors.
A.R.S. sec. 13-3967A.R.S. sec. 12-213Ariz. Const. art. 2, sec. 22A.R.S. sec. 13-3601- Time to see a judge
A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate within 24 hours, or released. If no complaint is filed within 48 hours of the initial appearance, the person must be released.
Ariz. R. Crim. P. 4.1, as summarized in Arizona Supreme Court, Case Processing Standards Analysis: Criminal Felony (2024)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.