Palmyra
Borough in Lebanon County, 7,755 people.
Police
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
- Lebanon County
- People
- 7,755
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Palmyra 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 PA0380300, Palmyra'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* | Per 100k | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 273 |
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 7.5 | ||||
| Rape | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 30 | ||||
| Robbery | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 66 | |||
| Aggravated assault | 3 | 6 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 169 | |
| Property crime | 36 | 66 | 51 | 17 | 760 | 1,479 |
| Burglary | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 140 |
| Larceny | 30 | 62 | 43 | 14 | 682 | 1,120 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 218 |
| Arson | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021* | 2022 | 2023 | 2024* | Per 100k | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 125 | 179 | 163 | 51 | 2,221 | 2,761 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 26 | 45 | 61 | 15 | 688 | 911 |
| Vandalism | 25 | 37 | 29 | 20 | 429 | 646 |
| Fraud | 12 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 162 | 390 |
| Drug abuse violations | 56 | 78 | 50 | 8 | 831 | 443 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 1 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 181 | |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 27 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 2 | 1 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 34 | |
| Embezzlement | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 18 | ||
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 55 | |||
| Other Group A offenses | 1 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 48 | |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 1.4 |
Offenses PA0380300 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, 2022 to 2023 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, 2024: 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.