Lafayette Hill Police Jail

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The Lafayette Hill Police Jail is located at 616 East Germantown Pike in Lafayette Hill, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Whitemarsh Township Police Department.

This site will tell you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Lafayette Hill Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Lafayette Hill Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find Montgomery County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and advice you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that would be beneficial to others is welcome.

Lafayette Hill Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lafayette Hill Police Jail Inmate Roster is an online list of people who have been arrested, including current status, and visiting hours. You can get info on anyone arrested and booked or discharged in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to get their arrest information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Lafayette Hill Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Lafayette Hill Police Jail is made up of the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will have to answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full legal name, street address, birthdate and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you make a phone call in order to contact a member of your family, friend, or somebody else who can help you get out.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will get released from jail. This process will take anywhere from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In simple terms, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you will get out of jail. It also will depend on whether you have a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to figure out the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and are given a discharge date, expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Lafayette Hill Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to provide information about each visitor to the Lafayette Hill Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be put into the visitation log for the inmate. Each and every visitor is required to provide proof of identification. Any visitors arriving late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

The Lafayette Hill Police Jail visitation procedures frequently change, so make sure that you call the jail at 610-825-6530 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Lafayette Hill Police Jail you must first have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Lafayette Hill Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of the inmate, this 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 Lafayette Hill Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lafayette Hill 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 Lafayette Hill 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 Lafayette Hill 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant, you can check court records on the Montgomery County court website or call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that includes a court docket and any documents filed in your case. You are able to access court records online, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of someone’s criminal past. These online databases are connected and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and if the crime was in a different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more complete search.

A criminal history search you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail change frequently, so we suggest that you visit the Lafayette Hill Police Jail site before you send any money.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lafayette Hill 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 Lafayette Hill Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 610-825-6530 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 Lafayette Hill Police Jail store. You can purchase several different things here, such as toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from 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 enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products like 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 Lafayette Hill Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you break the rules, phone privileges might get reduced or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 610-825-6530

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control the prices. The money these phone service providers make off of all inmate phone calls 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 Lafayette Hill Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 state prisons and local jails learning how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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