Westerville Police Jail

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The Westerville Police Jail is located at 6340 Hempstead Road in Westerville, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Blendon Township Police Department.

This guide will tell you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Westerville Police Jail, like how to find an inmate at the Westerville Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, how to find Franklin County court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and advice that you’ll need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask them, and any feedback or comments that would be a benefit to others would be welcome.

Westerville Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Westerville Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people who have been arrested, which includes status, and visiting hours. Also, you are able to get info on anyone arrested and booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by last name. You can locate the information more quickly if you enter the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or arrest number.

Westerville Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Westerville Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will answer a bunch of questions, such as your full name, home address, birth date and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

You will be allowed to make a phone call to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to wear your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process will take between 30 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will be released. Also, it depends on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate needs to decide on the bail amount. For a minor charge, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a discharge date, you should plan to be released that morning.

Westerville Police Jail Visitation

Inmates must list information about each visitor to the Westerville Police Jail before you can visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor will have to provide acceptable photo identification. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures at Westerville Police Jail can change, so it would be wise to call the jail at 614-882-8500 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Westerville Police Jail you have to first be added to the inmate’s visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No cellphones at Westerville Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anyone under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they must 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 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 Westerville Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Westerville 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 Westerville 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 Westerville 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 for your arrest, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants on the website or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file containing a court docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access the court records online, or at the Franklin County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of a person’s criminal history. These state databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or you can check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and if it was in a completely different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive 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 Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or property crimes like theft or larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Westerville Police Jail jail inmates can change at any time, so it would be best to review the Westerville Police Jail website when send funds to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Westerville 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 Westerville Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 614-882-8500 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 Westerville Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely want to buy things from the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that the inmate can purchase if they have money in their trust account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products such as 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 Westerville Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are a lot pricier than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or totally denied.

The Westerville Police Jail phone number is: 614-882-8500

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all of the 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 Westerville Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county 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 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 therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their inmate calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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