Ridgefield Police Department
City agency in Western Connecticut Planning Region. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 25,387 (FBI figure, 2025)
- City or town
- Ridgefield town (the Census place its FBI map point falls in)
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since July 2000.
- Months sent in 2025
- 11 of 12
- FBI agency code
- CT0011800
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
The police decide first. A police chief or designee must interview the arrested person and release them on a written promise or a bond the officer sets. If the person can't post it, a Judicial Branch bail commissioner or intake specialist sets conditions. Police can't release on a promise or unsecured bond in a family violence crime involving a firearm.
C.G.S. 54-63c and 54-63d- Time to see a judge
A person arrested and not released must be presented promptly at the next regular sitting of the Superior Court where the offense happened. The law sets no hour limit. The U.S. Supreme Court's 48-hour rule for a probable cause finding applies as the federal floor.
C.G.S. 54-1g
Crime and arrests
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