Animal Welfare: Sussex County
Other State Agency agency in Sussex County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- None listed
- Counties
- Sussex County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since December 2015.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- DE003500X
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 Justice of the Peace Court magistrate usually sets bail at the initial appearance. Magistrates need not be lawyers. Only the Superior Court may set bail in a capital case, and for about 39 serious charges the law presumes cash-only bail.
11 Del. C. 2103, 2107, 2116Delaware Courts, Magistrate Screening Committee- Time to see a judge
The court rules say a person arrested without a warrant must be taken before the nearest available magistrate without unreasonable delay, and set no hour limit. The U.S. Supreme Court's 48-hour rule for a probable cause finding applies as the federal floor.
Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 5(a)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.