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Millcreek

Township in Erie County, 53,472 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Erie 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
53,472
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Millcreek 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 Millcreek Township Police Department, Erie County, Millcreek'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 Millcreek Township Police Department, Erie County, 2021 to 2025
Offense2021*2022*2023*20242025Per 100kPennsylvania
Violent crime67476243
Murder1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.4.8
Rape5172128
Robbery3Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.49
Aggravated assault15351160
Property crime45193533521,420
Burglary2140Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.114
Larceny24193043061,112
Motor vehicle theft9Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.194
Arson15Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.11

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Millcreek Township Police Department, Erie County, 2021 to 2025
Offense2021*2022*2023*20242025Per 100kPennsylvania
All offenses outside the crime index227428658592,733
Simple assault and intimidation2253241941
Vandalism2319995580
Fraud1317223227389
Drug abuse violations9170169495
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.14443149
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing1411Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.30
Forgery and counterfeiting1252530
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)16323649
Prostitution and commercialized vice2Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.5.3
Other Group A offenses16Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.46
Human trafficking (not in the total)12Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.0.8

Offenses Millcreek Township Police Department, Erie County 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, 2024 to 2025 added together, full years only, beside Pennsylvania's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

* 2021 to 2023: reported for part of the year only, so the count is short and the year is left out of the rate.

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.