Bel Air Police Jail

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The Bel Air Police Jail is located at 39 Hickory Avenue in Bel Air, MD and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Bel Air Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything related to the Bel Air Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information and records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and advice that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and please leave any tips or comments that would be a benefit to others would be appreciated.

Bel Air Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Bel Air Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of people who are in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find info about anyone booked or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get the information faster if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Bel Air Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Bel Air Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you must answer some basic questions, like your legal name, home address, birthdate and contact person, and you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are discharged.

You will then be allowed to use the telephone to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. This process takes between 30 minutes to all day long. So, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you can get out of jail. Also, it will depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond or if the judge still needs to determine your bail amount. For a minor offense, you will be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, plan to get discharged in the morning.

Bel Air Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates need to provide each visitor’s name to the Bel Air Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s names will be put in a log of visitors for the inmate. Each and every visitor will have to provide identification. Anyone showing up late or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies change often, so call the facility at 410-638-4500 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Bel Air Police Jail you have to first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No cellphones at Bel Air Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

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

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Bel Air Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Bel Air 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.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Bel Air 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 Bel Air 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 have a warrant out for your arrest, you can access arrest warrants online or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Harford County jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and these records are accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a court case file that includes a docket and any filings and documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records on the internet, or at the Harford County Clerk of Court office in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal background. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to the Harford County Courthouse and make an inquiry, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal records search 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 crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to Bel Air Police Jail inmates are always changing, so it would be best to visit the Bel Air Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Bel Air 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 Bel Air Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 410-638-4500 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 Bel Air Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely need to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their trust account. These products 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

All phone calls from the Bel Air Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are typically more costly than phone calls made at home. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, phone calls might get reduced or totally denied.

Phone Number: 410-638-4500

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all of the phone calls that inmates make are shared 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 Bel Air 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 factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. In some cases, we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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