Friday, November 7, 2014

Free Public Police Records Alabama

By Claire Dowell


Alabama has updated a large database of public data including that of the police records Alabama. This records repository has been around for many years already and is still in operation up to these days. These are the pieces of information on the police reports done by the authorities across the State. However, take note that this type of report does not mean that a person being suspected of the crime was convicted and was sentenced therefore to imprisonment. He or she could have been released immediately without solid evidences which would have led to the person's indictment.

The law in Alabama is implemented by the different authorities and law enforcement agencies. But, they are all spearheaded by the Department of Public Safety whose job is to monitor all the works done by the respective law enforcers like narcotics, highway patrol and among others. The said office orders an automatic documentation of police records whenever someone gets arrested. The police report contains information about the name of the suspect, crime committed, date and location where it happened and the name of the arresting officer.

Once the police see a probable cause to file a case against someone, then it shall be carried out by bringing the case to the court for hearing. The police records then become active and can be viewed whenever urgently needed for court proceedings. If there is no legal basis for a complaint, then the police record of an individual will be removed from the police' records database. The active police documents are more often leveraged for background checking purposes. It does not hold a lot of information but it would certainly say something about the attitude or personality of the suspect.

Most of the States have fingerprint-based and name-based type of searches. But in Alabama you are only allowed to do fingerprinting searches as per management's legal call. Thus, you got to visit a local law enforcement agency for the fingerprinting service which is going to cost $25.00. Payment must be done through a certified check or money order to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center. It takes time before you eventually get the results which you have requested because they typically do all the formalities in the procedures that they do when processing for police related documents. The turn-around time is usually 5 to 10 business days.

Today, the release of police documents may take place at each of the counties under Alabama. They had to locally make the records available so that the residents will no longer have to make a trip all the way to the central records databases of Alabama. With this recent development, records are more taken care of; more organized and are easily retrieved for whatever legal circumstances. Moreover, state and county officials have promoted online searches by activating websites for the people to benefit from by exploring the site and learning how the basic background checking task can be done in just a few clicks.

There is even more good news these days that come with the emergence of computers and the Internet. The local police records are now uploaded on some reputable private websites for free and others for a corresponding payment. The paid version sounds a lot better for it means it is professionally designed to satisfy people's need. However, beware of the scammers for they could just get your money without having the data which you asked for. Thus, you have to scout the right Internet records provider to be able to generate just the information you are looking for.




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