Havertown Police Jail

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The Havertown Police Jail is located at 1010 Darby Road in Havertown, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Haverford Township Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about anything a person needs to know about the Havertown Police Jail, like how to do a jail inmate search, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and lots more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you info you need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that might help other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Havertown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Havertown Police Jail Inmate List has information about people currently in custody, including current status, and schedule for visitation. You can find the same information on anyone who has been arrested or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed alphabetically by last name. You’ll be able to locate the information fast if you’ve got the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Havertown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Havertown Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, you may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer some simple questions, such as your full legal name, home address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

They will let you use the phone in order to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you post bail, you will get released from jail. The discharge process will take between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. How quickly you get discharged depends on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge must determine how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a date of your release, expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Havertown Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you need to give the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Havertown Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will go into a log of visitors for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each visitor will have to provide proof of identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so make sure that you call the jail at 610-853-1298 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Havertown Police Jail you must first be added to their visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Havertown Police Jail, and you will be searched. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons on must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. This kind of visitation is not normally 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 a 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 magazines to an inmate at the Havertown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Havertown 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 Havertown 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 Havertown 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 find out by checking the arrest warrants on the Delaware County court website or you are able to call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and the information is available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. Court Records include a case file containing a docket sheet and any documents and filings filed in the court case. You can access court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal background. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from any other state. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for any of the following crimes, drug crimes like possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to inmates at the Havertown Police Jail change frequently, so we suggest that you check the Havertown Police Jail site when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Havertown 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 Havertown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 610-853-1298 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 Havertown Police Jail store. You can purchase different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Havertown Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the rules and are disciplined, phone calls might get cut back or eliminated completely.

Phone Number: 610-853-1298

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits off of all of the 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 Havertown Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 learning how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not be able to save you any money, and therefore 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 can save you money.

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

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