Sumter County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Sumter County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 61,746 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Sumter County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since January 1991.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- SC0430000
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.