South CarolinaAgencies

Olanta Police Department

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

Reporting to the FBI

Population served
549 (FBI figure, 2025)
Incident reporting
Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 2013.
Months sent in 2025
6 of 12
FBI agency code
SC0210500

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, or a municipal judge for city charges, sets bond at a hearing within 24 hours of arrest. Magistrates need not be lawyers. A magistrate can't set bail on a charge punishable by death or life in prison; a circuit judge does.

S.C. Code 22-5-510S.C. Code 17-15-10 and following
Time to see a judge

A person charged with a bailable offense must have a bond hearing within 24 hours of arrest, and the jail must release the person within four hours after the bond is delivered.

S.C. Code 22-5-510(B)

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

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