Polk County Sheriff's Office
County agency in Polk County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 17,114 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Polk County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since September 1997.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- TN0700000
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 sets bail first. In many counties that is an appointed judicial commissioner who need not be a lawyer; in others it is a general sessions judge or, when no judge can come within three hours, a court clerk. A defendant can appeal a commissioner's decision to the court.
Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-106Tenn. Code Ann. 40-1-111Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-150- Time to see a judge
A person arrested must be taken "without unnecessary delay" before the nearest magistrate of the county. The rule sets no number of hours.
Tenn. R. Crim. P. 5(a)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.