Who polices Berlin
Berlin has a municipal police department, and arrests in town are made by Berlin officers, who handle booking and set the initial bond or release you on a written promise to appear.
The Berlin Turnpike runs through the town and is the busiest thing in it from a policing point of view, both for traffic and for the stores along it.
Where your case goes
Berlin arrests are prosecuted at New Britain Superior Court, GA 15, the next town over. The court page covers parking, which is mostly metered or paid, and the arraignment docket, which is busy.
If the department released you, the date is on your paperwork. If it did not, court is the next business day.
After the arrest
Berlin officers either release you on a promise to appear, set a bond, or hold you for court the next business day. Released, the date is on your paperwork; held, the judge revisits the bond at the first appearance. See the arrest page and the bond and bail page.
Family violence runs on its own clock: court the next business day either way, and a protective order issued at that appearance, which can put you out of your own house the same day.
Before any of it, stop explaining. Not to officers, not to anyone else involved, and not on a recorded line from a cell. The arraignment page walks through the first date and the what to expect page through the months after.
Common charges in Berlin
The Turnpike retail corridor makes larceny and shoplifting a notable part of the Berlin docket at GA 15. Store cases feel minor to the person charged and are not: larceny is a crime of dishonesty, and the record reaches into employment and licensing long after any penalty. A first offense is often exactly what a diversionary program ends in dismissal.
Traffic on the same road puts DUI and drug possession next on the list, with assault and domestic violence and family violence making up the rest.