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Harmar

Township in Allegheny County, 3,075 people.

Police

Sheriffs and county police in its county: Allegheny County Police Department, Allegheny County Sheriff's Office.

A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

Where it sits

People
3,075
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Harmar follows Pennsylvania law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

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)
Money bail

Money bail is allowed. The rules list five kinds of release, from release on recognizance to a money condition no larger than needed to ensure the person appears.

Pa.R.Crim.P. 524(C)

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. The prison board statute covers counties of the third to fifth class and those that opt in; Philadelphia and Allegheny run jails under other arrangements not read here.

Crime

Offenses reported by Harmar Township Police Department, Harmar's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by Harmar Township Police Department, 2023 to 2025
Offense202320242025Per 100kPennsylvania
Violent crime1142Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.254
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.5
Rape13Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.29
Robbery11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.54
Aggravated assault92Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.165
Property crime5169682,0861,478
Burglary35Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.123
Larceny4464611,8751,135
Motor vehicle theft452Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.220
Arson1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.12

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Harmar Township Police Department, 2023 to 2025
Offense202320242025Per 100kPennsylvania
All offenses outside the crime index79126923,2962,781
Simple assault and intimidation2139311,010941
Vandalism121310388628
Fraud141617522383
Drug abuse violations213930999485
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.23Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.161
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing253Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.30
Forgery and counterfeiting36Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.31
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)131Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.50
Prostitution and commercialized vice2Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.7
Other Group A offenses12Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.47

Offenses Harmar Township Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2023 to 2025 added together, beside Pennsylvania's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Pennsylvania: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.