Port Townsend Police Department
City agency in Jefferson County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 10,772 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Jefferson County
- Incident reporting
- Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since July 2010.
- Months sent in 2025
- 12 of 12
- FBI agency code
- WA0160100
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 judge or court commissioner sets release at the preliminary appearance. Before that, a district or municipal court may adopt its own bail schedule that the jail applies; adopting one is optional and court by court.
CrRLJ 3.2CrR 3.2.1RCW 10.99.045RCW 3.42.010- Time to see a judge
A judge must decide probable cause within 48 hours of an arrest, counting weekends and holidays. The person must then appear before the court by the close of business on the next court day.
CrR 3.2.1(a), (c), (d)
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.