Newville
Borough in Cumberland County, 1,283 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Cumberland 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
- County
- Cumberland County
- People
- 1,283
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Newville 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 Newville, Newville's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025* | Per 100k | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 1 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 280 | ||
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 7.6 | |||||
| Rape | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 32 | ||||
| Robbery | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 66 | |||||
| Aggravated assault | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 174 | |||
| Property crime | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1,460 |
| Burglary | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 139 | ||||
| Larceny | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1,115 |
| Motor vehicle theft | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 206 | |||||
| Arson | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 13 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025* | Per 100k | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 10 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 688 | 2,704 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 885 | |
| Vandalism | 1 | 5 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 590 | ||
| Fraud | 2 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 418 | ||
| Drug abuse violations | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 469 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 32 |
Offenses Newville 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, 2021 to 2024 added together, full years only, beside Pennsylvania's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2025: 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.