If you turn someone into the cops, and they call that other person just for questioning and warning, will that be on their record? and background?
2006-10-02 14:17:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I've turned someone in. Is this now on their background even though all they got was a warning?
2006-10-02 14:29:41 · update #1
There's a difference between an arrest record, a conviction record, and a record of having come into contact with the police.
In the scenario that you described, the person does not incur the kind of record that is accessible by a future employer and it won't show up as an arrest or conviction. In fact, for all practical purposes, it will be close to an invisible record - at least as far as public consumption is concerned.
When the police investigate a crime or any complaint, even if the complaint turns out to be completely unfounded, a police report is made. The report will include the names of a victim, a possible accused person, other people that were interviewed, etc. Their names will be on the police report. The report will be processed by police support staff and data from the report (in these modern times) are entered into a police computer data base. It's researchable only by law enforcement.
So theoretically, if your friend got into some serious trouble 3 years from now, and an investigating officer in that same department wanted to know if the department has ever had any other contacts with that person, the officer will find the case you spoke of and that your friend was warned about something. This prior case may have no relevance whatsoever and completely useless in the case 3 years later, but it's an example of how a name that appears on a police report 'is' still researchable to law enforcement. But it's not a record of ill-doing in the traditional sense.
And if your friend got into trouble (the same 3 years fast forward) in some other city or jurisdiction, an investigating officer may never know of the event you speak of, because the earlier record - the name on a police report only - is only in the data base of that particular department, and it won't show up in the data bases of other departments.
2006-10-02 15:53:21 · answer #1 · answered by nothing 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No but it will be in the polices system if they do a check on them
2006-10-02 14:25:35 · answer #2 · answered by Bullz_ eye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it is not on thier record.
2006-10-02 14:48:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-10-02 14:23:52 · answer #4 · answered by reneevaldosta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-10-02 14:19:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2006-10-02 14:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by LadyL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋