White Sulphur Springs
City in Greenbrier County, 2,549 people.
Police
Sheriff in its county: Greenbrier 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
- Greenbrier County
- People
- 2,549
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
White Sulphur Springs follows West Virginia law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
A county magistrate sets bail first, with an on-call magistrate for arrests after hours. Magistrates need not be lawyers. Only the circuit court can release a person charged with an offense punishable by life in prison.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1W. Va. Code 62-1-5- Time to see a judge
An officer must take an arrested person "without unnecessary delay" before a magistrate of the county where the arrest happened. The law sets no number of hours.
W. Va. Code 62-1-5(a)(1)- Money bail
Magistrates and judges may set money bail.
W. Va. Code 62-1C-1
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. The name of the Supreme Court-approved risk instrument was not found. Whether jailers release on a bail schedule without a magistrate was not found.
Crime
Offenses reported by White Sulphur Springs Police Department, White Sulphur Springs'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 | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 270 |
| Murder | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 5.6 | |||||
| Rape | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 55 | ||||
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 11 | ||
| Aggravated assault | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 198 | |
| Property crime | 3 | 21 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 1,216 | 1,178 |
| Burglary | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 185 |
| Larceny | 2 | 16 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 961 | 907 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 87 | |
| Arson | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 11 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021* | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 13 | 89 | 127 | 98 | 79 | 4,551 | 2,036 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 5 | 18 | 41 | 40 | 24 | 1,424 | 694 |
| Vandalism | 1 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 475 | 315 |
| Fraud | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 255 | 160 |
| Drug abuse violations | 3 | 53 | 65 | 41 | 29 | 2,177 | 613 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 81 | |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 1 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 37 | |||
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 40 |
| Embezzlement | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 9.1 | ||||
| Other Group A offenses | 1 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 52 |
Offenses White Sulphur Springs 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, 2022 to 2025 added together, full years only, beside West Virginia's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
* 2021: 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. West Virginia: 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.