DelawareAgencies

Millsboro Police Department

City agency in Sussex County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.

Reporting to the FBI

Population served
8,113 (FBI figure, 2025)
Incident reporting
Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2001.
Months sent in 2025
12 of 12
FBI agency code
DE0031500

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.