Southwest Harbor Police Department
City agency in Hancock County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 1,870 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Hancock County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2021.
- Months sent in 2025
- 10 of 12
- FBI agency code
- ME0050800
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 bail commissioner sets most first bail, especially after hours. Commissioners are residents the Chief Judge of the District Court appoints, and they need not be lawyers. They may not set bail for murder, Class A to C domestic violence crimes, or violations of a protection order; a judge decides those.
15 M.R.S. 1023- Time to see a judge
A person arrested and not released must see a judge within 48 hours, not counting weekends and holidays, or the jail must release them. A judge or justice of the peace must also find probable cause within 48 hours of a warrantless arrest, counting weekends.
M.R.U. Crim. P. 5(a)M.R.U. Crim. P. 4A(a)
Crime and arrests
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