MALDEN
City police department in Whitman County. The FBI's current list leaves it out; its name is as the FBI's Return A files write it.
Reporting to the FBI
- Population served
- 263 (FBI figure, 2025)
- Counties
- Whitman County
- Incident reporting
- No NIBRS start date in the FBI's list.
- Months sent in 2025
- 0 of 12
- Reported by
- Whitman County Sheriff's Office sends this agency's reports.
- FBI agency code
- WA0381300
Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
After an arrest
- Who decides release first
A judge or court commissioner sets release at the preliminary appearance. Before that, a district or municipal court may adopt its own bail schedule that the jail applies; adopting one is optional and court by court.
CrRLJ 3.2CrR 3.2.1RCW 10.99.045RCW 3.42.010- Time to see a judge
A judge must decide probable cause within 48 hours of an arrest, counting weekends and holidays. The person must then appear before the court by the close of business on the next court day.
CrR 3.2.1(a), (c), (d)
Crime
No figures
MALDEN sent the FBI no crime index offenses in incident detail from 2021 on; another agency sends its reports.