If you are not considering warrant searches and background checks when making hiring decisions, you are exposing your business and employees to untold dangers. In fact, law enforcement agencies strongly recommend that you go through local arrest records before taking on a new employee.
While you can get criminal history information through the sheriff's department in Bartholomew County, IN, it would help to have some knowledge about arrest orders and their significance when conducting a background check.
Warrants issued by a judicial entity in response to an affidavit filed by the police are known as an active arrest warrant and these can only be granted by a federal or state level criminal court. On the other hand, any other judicial branch can issue a bench warrant against a person who fails to appear in court.
For an arrest warrant in a case of felony or misdemeanor, the sheriff's department has to file a formal complaint with the court, complete with a written affidavit, to procure an arrest warrant.
The evidence in the case is diligently studied by the sitting magistrate before the arrest order is granted. A signed document which mentions all the information offered in the affidavit plus an express order to take the person in question into custody is known as an active arrest warrant.
An arrest order that does not get served within a short time after its issuances is held back in the national repository of arrest records under the name- outstanding arrest warrant.
For any information relating to a warrant search, the only law and order agency to contact is the sheriff's department of Bartholomew County, Indiana. Their office is situated on 543 2nd St, Columbus, Indiana 47202.
The website of the law enforcement agency also offers a telephone number (812-379-1650) but this cannot be used to get information pertaining to arrest records in the county. However, if you are looking for a quick solution instead of a lengthy official procedure, you can always fill the form above for a warrant search online.
In the ten years that started in 1999, almost 25,000 criminal complaints were filed in Bartholomew of which less than 5% were for violent crimes. Yet, the county witnesses nearly one homicide and over 9 sexual assault incidents each year. The daily crime average was found to be at 8 occurrences in every 24 hours while the annual rate of crime was about 2500 cases.
There has been a rise of over 20% in the decade mentioned and most of it seems to be reflected in the cases of theft and robbery which have a decade long average of nearly 22,000 incidents. Despite the increase in crime, the county is among the safest areas in Indiana.