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Upper Allen

Township in Cumberland County, 23,801 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

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

Where it sits

People
23,801
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Upper Allen 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 Upper Allen Township Police Department, Upper Allen'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 Upper Allen Township Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kPennsylvania
Violent crime131218211870270
Murder1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.8
Rape545531931
Robbery131Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.61
Aggravated assault7512151546170
Property crime991039685783941,445
Burglary8912111144133
Larceny78857967663201,108
Motor vehicle theft13957130204
Arson1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.12

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Upper Allen Township Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kPennsylvania
All offenses outside the crime index4914133424033591,7142,703
Simple assault and intimidation113123116138139537897
Vandalism3539165334151580
Fraud1851081159587504415
Drug abuse violations117110647072370475
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.101139532158
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.27
Embezzlement1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.16
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)1211152085651
Prostitution and commercialized vice21Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.4.9
Other Group A offenses16111217146044
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1.2
Human trafficking (not in the total)1Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.0.7

Offenses Upper Allen 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, 2021 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.