Bath Police Release Mid-January 2026 Incident Summaries, Arrests and Summonses

The Bath Police Department has posted a set of incident-summary and arrests-and-summonses PDFs covering mid-January 2026, making case-level records available to Sagadahoc County residents. The files provide week-by-week listings of incidents, arrests and summonses and contain line-by-line detail for the dates shown.

The police department’s incident-report page includes three downloadable files: 1_14_26-1_15_26.pdf, 1_15_26-1_20_26.pdf and Arrests_and_Summonses_1_12_26-1_20_26.pdf. Together the documents cover incidents reported through January 20, 2026, and offer the public access to narratives, location data and enforcement actions that are part of the department’s weekly reporting.

Making these records public serves two immediate purposes for local residents. First, it gives residents factual detail about recent public-safety activity in neighborhoods across Bath, from downtown and Front Street to outlying residential areas. Second, the records enable community members, civic leaders and local reporters to track trends in arrests, summonses and types of incidents over short time spans without having to file specific information requests.

The release continues an established practice of posting routine incident summaries online while preserving full investigative files where appropriate. The PDFs are presented as downloadable documents on the city website and are intended to show what calls the department responded to and what follow-up actions were taken. Full, line-by-line incident detail is contained in the PDF files available on the site for those who want to review each recorded entry.

For residents seeking the documents, the files are available at cityofbathmaine.gov/Departments/Police/Incident-Reports/January-2026. The specific PDF filenames are listed on the page to help locate the relevant date ranges quickly. If you need full text from a specific PDF, tell me which file and I will extract it.

Public access to these records supports transparency and allows civic stakeholders to monitor patterns that could inform council discussion, public safety planning and neighborhood engagement. Local organizations that track safety or provide services to vulnerable populations can use the information to identify emerging needs or hotspots.

What comes next for readers is straightforward: review the PDFs for incidents in your area, note any trends you see, and bring substantive concerns to City Hall or the Bath Police Department during scheduled public comment opportunities. The posted summaries are a tool for civic oversight — use them to hold institutions accountable and to participate constructively in local safety conversations.