Belmont Police Department
City agency in Gaston County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 16,272 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Gaston County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2019.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- NC0360100
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 magistrate usually sets the first conditions of release. Magistrates are not judges and need not be lawyers. For murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, and other listed charges, only a judge can set release, and a magistrate may act only if no judge has done so within 48 hours of arrest.
N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-533N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-534UNC School of Government, Iryna's Law and Pretrial Release (2025)- Time to see a judge
Police must take a person arrested without a warrant before a judicial official, usually a magistrate, "without unnecessary delay." A person still in custody must then see a district court judge within 72 hours or at the next regular session of district court, whichever comes first.
N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-501(2)N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-601(c)
Crime and arrests
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