Peters Township Police Department
City agency in Washington County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 23,322 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Washington County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since March 2025.
- Months sent in 2025
- 10 of 12
- FBI agency code
- PA0630400
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
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