Panama City Police Jail

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The Panama City Police Jail is located at 2730 East 14Th Street in Panama City, FL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Cedar Grove Police Department.

This page will tell you information about everything you might need to know about the Panama City Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Panama City Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any feedback or comments that would help others is welcome.

Panama City Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Panama City Police Jail Inmate List has information about people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and visiting schedule. You can also find info for anybody processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to get the information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Panama City Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Panama City Police Jail includes these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, it will take a while to get processed.

First you will have to answer a bunch of questions, such as what is your full name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask you about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call so you can contact family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, you might be able to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, if not you you will have to wear a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere from 30 minutes to all day long. In simple terms, the quicker bail is posted, the sooner you will get discharged. Also, how fast you get released can depend on if you’ve been given a bond amount or if a judge must decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor charges, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Panama City Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give information about each visitor to the Panama City Police Jail in advance. This information will go into the log for the requesting inmate. Each visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Jail visitation policies frequently change, so call the facility at 850-763-1578 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Panama City Police Jail you must first have your name on this person’s visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Panama City Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years old 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Panama City Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Panama City 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 Panama City 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 Panama City 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can check arrest warrants online or call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind 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, and their arrest date, contact the Bay County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file that includes a court docket and all documents filed in the case. You can access your court records on the website, or at the Bay County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for the following crimes, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to people in jail is likely to change, so be sure to check the Panama City Police Jail site when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Panama City 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 Panama City Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 850-763-1578 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 Panama City Police Jail store. An inmate can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to buy things from 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 inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Panama City Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are much pricier than regular phone calls. Phone calls are restricted on how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone privileges could be reduced or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Panama City Police Jail phone number is: 850-763-1578

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits 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 Panama City Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 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 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 prisons or jails where 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 jail has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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