Berne Police Department
City agency in Adams County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 4,342 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Adams County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2024.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- IN0010100
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
For misdemeanors and lower felonies, the jail usually releases people on the county court's bail schedule as soon as they are booked. For serious felonies, a judge, magistrate, or commissioner sets bail at the initial hearing. Since July 2025, a person arrested for a crime of violence can't be released on a schedule and gets a bail hearing in open court.
Indiana Office of Court Services, Legislative Update on SB 324 (2025), adding IC 35-33-8-3.4Marion Superior Court bail schedule- Time to see a judge
A person arrested without a warrant must be taken promptly before a judicial officer for an initial hearing. The general law sets no number of hours, but since 2025 a person arrested for a crime of violence must get a bail hearing within 48 hours unless exigent circumstances prevent it.
IC 35-33-7-1 (2016 text)Indiana Office of Court Services, Legislative Update on SB 324 (2025)
Crime and arrests
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