7/14/11

Searching Through Police Records

By Bill Headlemeyer


Have you ever suspected that a person you know has been convicted and taken into police custody for breaking the law? Police records can reveal all that you need to know and are generally available as public records. These public records are maintained by an agency appointed by state or federal government and can be linked to an individual. You can conduct an exhaustive search on a person's criminal past by looking through police records.

What will you get from Police Records?

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.

Police records clearly reveal the names, addresses and other relevant details pertaining to all the involved person(s). Information may include addresses, phone numbers, date of birth, driving license number, profession, age etc. In case of accidents and motor vehicle related offenses, the reports may also include vehicle information, date of accident, evidences recovered amongst other details.

Where should You Start Looking For a Police Record?

Police records can be accessed in almost every part of the country but how much and who can access them depends on the laws of a particular state. While in a few states anyone can access them, in others only the involved persons or their lawyers can. Also, in a few cases due to security reasons some critical information is omitted from even the easily available police records.

Any request that you make for police records will have to be made via the records department of the concerned agency. While many agencies provide information online, some of them may still require you to come and collect the information personally. Online information can be accessed on the website of the agency and can even be received on email. Some agencies may require you to sign a disclaimer which states that the police records you receive from them won't be used for any any legal action against any individual or otherwise.

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.

Many states have made available a joint database of police records. These databases contain information for several states as well as individual ones. You can access information like crime stats, number of criminals in jails, accident numbers, number of people convicted in a particular area etc. You can even find the number of sex offenders currently residing or working a city or region. And, most of this information can be downloaded through 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

Doing a background check can become extremely difficult and complicated when you have to scrape through results across several states and regions. However, to help you out in such a case you can hire the services of a professional and paid internet based detective agency like Net Detective which can provide you with a thorough and concise multi-state, multi-jurisdiction search in a single step. Thus, you get to the desired information faster and are saved from the troubles of contacting every involved agency personally.

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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