Mesquite Police Department
City agency in Clark County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 24,413 (FBI figure, 2025)
- City or town
- Mesquite city (the Census place its FBI map point falls in)
- Counties
- Clark County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2020.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- NV0020900
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 judge, usually a justice of the peace, decides release at a pretrial release hearing held within 48 hours of custody. Before that hearing, a sheriff or police chief may release people without a hearing where a court's administrative order allows it. For domestic battery, state law fixes the bail amount for anyone released after a 12-hour hold without seeing a judge.
NRS 178.484, 178.4847, 178.4849- Time to see a judge
A court must hold a pretrial release hearing within 48 hours after a person is taken into custody. Separately, if an arrested person has not seen a magistrate within 72 hours, not counting weekends and holidays, the magistrate must ask the prosecutor why and may release the person.
NRS 178.4849NRS 171.178(3)
Crime and arrests
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