Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Searching Through Police Records

By Bill Headlemeyer


Have you ever suspected someone of being a criminal or a convict trying to escape the law? Well, usually police records are considered as public records that contain a whole lot of information about an individual's criminal past. These public records are maintained by agencies appointed by the federal government or state's administration. A comprehensive people search can be performed on someone just by scanning these records.

What Will a Police Record Unravel?

Police reports can uncover quite a lot about a person's criminal past like involvement in domestic disputes, frauds, forgeries, robberies, murders, carjacking, accidents etc. A police record can also reveal numbers like crime stats, traffic accident surveys, crime surveys etc.

Information regarding persons involved, names of witnesses, address, their contact numbers, date or birth etc. can be accessed through police records. In case of an accident related case, driving license number, car's number, date and time of accident, evidence collected from spot of accident etc. can be found out.

Where should You Start Looking For a Police Record?

Access and how much of it can be accessed varies a lot from one state to the other. Police records in a few states are available to everyone while in a few states they are available only to the concerned parties and their representatives or lawyers or relatives. At times certain pieces of information are deliberately omitted from police records to safeguard the concerned person(s).

For every copy of police record that you need you'll have to get in touch with the concerned agency's records division. While a few agencies provide information online which can be received on email or downloaded via internet, others require a person seeking information to collect it in person. Most agencies also charge a small processing fee for supplying police records. The information providing agency can also require a written disclaimer from the person seeking information which states that none of the information will be used for solicitation purpose.

If you also want to access police record for a particular person you'll need to provide certain details like name of either parties involved or the particular person you need police record for and other details like location or case number or date and time of the incident etc.

Some states have come together and created a joint database of police records for their particular region. People can now access information like how many convicts are in jail, how many arrest warrants have been issued and against whom, crime statistics in a particular area, sexual offenders living in a particular area. And the best part is that almost all of this information can be accessed on internet.

Your reason for looking into police records could be anything but the first step to finding authentic information is identifying the concerned agency which administers the region in which the incident took place. Also, make sure you follow the procedure laid out by the concerned agency.

Retrieving Police Records Across Several Jurisdictions

Conducting a background check, especially verifying police records can become extremely complicated if the person you are looking for has lived in several states and regions. However, you can easily escape such a situation by hiring the services of an internet based investigation agency like Net Detective which will gather all the information and present it in a consolidated and useful format. Such an agency will perform an exhaustive check on police records of each and every state involved and will protect you from the troubles of going to each and every state's concerned agency looking for information.

People use police records to track down a person who was involved in an accident or any other incident with them or do a background search on a person they fear might have a criminal past. Whatever your reason may be, police records will certainly help you in accessing the information that you need.




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