Cape Girardeau Police Department
City agency in Cape Girardeau County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 41,080 (FBI figure, 2025)
- City or town
- Cape Girardeau city (the Census place its FBI map point falls in)
- Counties
- Cape Girardeau County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since April 2020.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- MO0160100
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 state charges, a circuit or associate circuit judge usually sets release conditions on the warrant issued after the prosecutor files, then reviews them at the initial appearance. For city ordinance arrests, jails apply municipal bond schedules. Whether jails use money schedules for state charges is not confirmed.
RSMo 544.170Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 22.08Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 33.01- Time to see a judge
A person arrested without a warrant must be released within 24 hours unless charged and held on a warrant. Once held on a felony warrant, the person must see a judge within 48 hours, not counting weekends and holidays. A person still held gets a detention hearing within seven business days.
RSMo 544.170Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 22.07Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 33.05
Crime and arrests
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