when arrested can the police use force to finger print a person.?

Question

or just put them in jail until they give up and be finger printed.

Answer 1

The police can use necessary force that is objectively reasonable in order to induce compliance (though prints taken by force are often of poorer quality). Nevertheless, people need to understand that resisting/ignoring a legitimate police instruction can and will be met, legally, with force. When told to do something, do it, immediately, and complain later, if warranted.

Answer 2

Once a person has been arrested and is in police custody, it is well within their rights to identify the person (so they know who they are dealing with). This is important because this information may help them solve one or more crimes, and it is equally important to know if the person arrested did NOT commit a particular crime.

Fingerprinting is not a painful process, and courts have repeatedly ruled that it does not infringe upon the rights of prisoners.

For these reasons, the police can use reasonable force to require a prisoner to submit to fingerprinting.

Answer 3

They can use force to get anything done that they have the lawful right to go. Once you're in jail, you have to abide by all rules and procedures or you will be forced to do so. They don't have time to allow inmates to decide when and if they feel like abiding by something. A jail can't possibly be run like that.

Answer 4

yes they can use force. they will give the inmate chances to do it themselves first.if the person still refuses and causes a fight you can use force. the proble is that the print might not be readable.they also can get a court order. they then can use as a many people as it takes to get the prints

Answer 5

YES, they may use reasonable force to fingerprint someone. Legitimate identification of a person in custody is a requirement for release. If a person refuses to identify himself of be fingerprinted, they will linger in jail until a positive identification is made. If someone wishes to be released from custody, they do themselves no favors by refusing to be fingerprinted.

Answer 6

My wisdom of real looking tension is as follows: a man or woman could use such tension as is real looking interior the circumstances for the applications of: * self-defence; or * defence of yet another; or * defence of sources; or * prevention of crime; or * lawful arrest. In assessing the reasonableness of the tension used, prosecutors could ask 2 questions: * became using tension justified interior the circumstances, i.e. became there a want for any tension in any respect? and * became the tension used intense interior the circumstances? So, via the sound of it, no, it particularly isn't any longer real looking tension except it occurs as they attempt to restrain the guy if he/she is putting up a combat

Answer 7

Yes they can, and did you know that the D.M.V. Dept. of Motor Vehicles now requires a Thumb print in order to renew your drivers license. Everyone who drives in the USA will have their prints on file. Failure to do so, means that your license will not be issued or renewed.

Answer 8

I've gone 3 on 1 to get a suspect fingerprinted. If they refuse to be identified, I'll go the distance. The guy turned out to be a serious offender and he knew it.

Answer 9

They can use reasonable force to print any arrestee, but it wouldn't do a bit of good. It's tough enough to get a good set of prints from someone who's compliant, let alone resisting. The judge could order the suspect to comply an hold him in contempt if he did not.

Answer 10

They can use limited force. They cannot cause any lasting harm (physical damage) to the person.

And the person can only be held until arraignment and their bail hearing -- but the judge may take the person's refusal to submit to the fingerprint check as an indication the person is a flight risk.