Monday, March 3, 2014

Florida Police Reports

By Ben Kingsley


The state of Florida is the 22nd most extensive and the 4th most populous of the 50 United States. It is also nicknamed as "The Sunshine State". With its huge number of people moving around in the region, it's difficult to assess the people you are dealing with everyday. If you want to know if you can trust the people in your neighbourhood, you can search through Florida police reports.

Being considered as an open records state, criminal records and background checks are of public domain. Each major arrest is registered, but sealed information will not be revealed to the people. An arrest record contains personal data such as the full name of the person, any other assumed names, birth date, birth place, race and physical attributes such as weight, sex, height, the color of the eyes, photo, arrests, date and place of arrest, any disposition, imprisonment and probation details.

Accounts of convictions from year 1950 are archived at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. If the file that you are examining is dated before 1950, you can be in touch with the county clerk of court where the arrest happened.

Arrest documents are registered and updated at the various levels of government law enforcement such as the office of the sheriff, criminal justice organizations, highway police officers and the county police divisions. The aforementioned files are then forwarded to the Criminal Justice Information Services unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the main depository of the state. You can dig into the bureau's comprehensive database for $24.00 per criminal report, and payment must be made through credit card. In the event where no file can be found, the fee is non-refundable. If you want to apply via mail, you have to download a copy of the official request form from the Internet, fill-out the important details such as the person's full name, or any other pen name, date of birth, race, gender and Social Security number, if it is on hand. Place the documents in a self-addressed stamped envelope together with your payment of $24.00 in cashier check or money order.

It is worthy to note that there is no 100% assurance that the person identified in the criminal history document is the person in question, unless there is a match in the fingerprint comparison. If you still want to investigate more, you can also check with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such agency maintains an identification records with fingerprints. To obtain a copy of the document, you must send an application by mail, with a set of fingerprints and a payment of $18.00.

Police reports play a major role for business entities that are appraising their new workers and those persons who are assessing their neighbors, associates, relatives or anyone. You can confer with the various sites that are reachable via the worldwide web, at any location, in any given time. The end result will come to you in handy, as you can refer to it to protect yourself and your family unit from any trouble.




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