PennsylvaniaAgencies

Gettysburg Police Department

City agency in Adams County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.

Reporting to the FBI

Population served
9,110 (FBI figure, 2025)
City or town
Gettysburg borough (the Census place its FBI map point falls in)
Counties
Adams County
Incident reporting
No NIBRS start date in the FBI's list.
Months sent in 2025
0 of 12
FBI agency code
PA0010100

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

Outside Philadelphia, a magisterial district judge sets bail at the preliminary arraignment. In Philadelphia, an arraignment court magistrate appointed by the Municipal Court sets it; magistrates need not be lawyers if they complete a training program. Neither may set bail for murder or voluntary manslaughter; a Common Pleas judge does.

Pa.R.Crim.P. 51942 Pa.C.S. 1515(a)(4)42 Pa.C.S. 1123(a)(5)
Time to see a judge

A person arrested without a warrant must have a preliminary arraignment without unnecessary delay. The rule sets no hour limit. The U.S. Supreme Court's 48-hour rule for a probable cause finding applies as the federal floor.

Pa.R.Crim.P. 516(A)

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.