Deer Lodge Police Department
City agency in Powell County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 3,002 (FBI figure, 2025)
- City or town
- Deer Lodge city (the Census place its FBI map point falls in)
- Counties
- Powell County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since February 2012.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- MT0390100
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
Each judge may post a bail schedule for offenses in that court, and a peace officer may accept bail under it without a judge. Otherwise the judge at the initial appearance, most often a justice of the peace or city judge, sets release.
MCA 46-9-302- Time to see a judge
An arrested person must be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest and most accessible judge. The statute sets no hour limit.
MCA 46-7-101
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.