Sunset Hills Police Jail

---

The Sunset Hills Police Jail is located at 3905 South Lindbergh Boulevard in Sunset Hills, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Sunset Hills Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything a person needs to know about the Sunset Hills Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Sunset Hills Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find St Louis County court records, and everything else.

Top 10 Searches for Sunset Hills Police Jail

1. Sunset Hills Police Jail Information
2. Sunset Hills Police Jail Inmate Search
3. St Louis County Inmate Search in Sunset Hills, MO
4. Sunset Hills Police Jail Visitation Rules
5. What Are the Visitation Hours for Sunset Hills Police Jail
6. How To Save Money on Inmate Calls at Sunset Hills Police Jail
7. Sunset Hills Police Jail Care Packages
8. What is Inmate Commissary?
9. How to Send Money to an Inmate at Sunset Hills Police Jail
10. How to Search St Louis County Arrest Records

Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give you information that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and also any tips or comments that might be a benefit to others will be welcome.

Sunset Hills Police Jail Inmate Search

---

Who’s In Jail

The Sunset Hills Police Jail Inmate Search is a roster of individuals who are in jail, including current status, and times you can visit. You can also get the same information about anybody arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information quicker if you enter your friend or family member’s name, birth date, or arrest number.

Sunset Hills Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Sunset Hills Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you must answer a number of questions, like your legal name, your address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you make a phone call to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process will take between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. So, the faster you post bail, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged depends on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate must figure out your bail amount. For minor offenses, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should plan to get released in the morning.

Sunset Hills Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Sunset Hills Police Jail before you can visit. This information will go into a Visiting log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification when visiting an inmate. Any visitors that arrives for visitation late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so call the jail at 314-849-4400 before you try to visit an inmate.

---

Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Sunset Hills Police Jail you have to first be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones are allowed at Sunset Hills Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Sunset Hills Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Sunset Hills Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

---

Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Sunset Hills Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Sunset Hills Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you believe you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check court records on the St Louis County court website or you can call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. You should know that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the St Louis County jail, by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a case file containing a court docket and any of the documents filed in the case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the St Louis County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You are able to go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to someone in jail change frequently, so we suggest that you review the Sunset Hills Police Jail site when you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Sunset Hills Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Sunset Hills Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 314-849-4400 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Sunset Hills Police Jail store. You can buy a number of things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products including soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

The only phone calls that Sunset Hills Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely.

The Sunset Hills Police Jail phone number is: 314-849-4400

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all inmate phone calls are split with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Sunset Hills Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For state prisons and local jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Sunset Hills Police Jail, click the link below.

Return To Main Menu

8676