Arrest or Police Records Purged

What happens if you are arrested or investigated by the police? This blogs discusses having arrest or police records purged.

If you have ever been arrested or investigated by the police, then that information will be kept on record and may show up on some searchable systems.  Many people are not aware that arrest records and investigation reports are held on file indefinitely.

If you have an arrest record or police record on file then that information can show up when you do a background check for volunteering or employment. The only way to have the arrest record or police record removed from the system is to apply for a record purge.

When police begin to investigate possible criminal activity, often following an arrest or investigation, they begin by creating a local police file on local and regional systems. Once your name and information is entered onto such a system, following a police or arrest record, it will stay there and can turn up during locally conducted criminal record screenings.

Arrest or Police Records Purged

Police will then only remove that information if the person applies for a purge, a purge in turn will have the information removed from the police systems.

Police records are local/regional by nature, and therefore they are not put onto the federal criminal record repository CPIC, meaning that arrest records and police records will only be visible on local record searches. Such files normally result from arrests/investigations which did not result in full convictions for various reasons. The purge or file destruction typically includes destruction of any fingerprints or photographs taken at the time of arrest.

The only solution to the police record/arrest record dilemma is to apply for a purge.

Legal service professionals at Express Pardons can prepare a petition on your behalf to force the closure of trivial investigate notes and arrest records at your local police through their purge process. Express Pardons maintains files on police policy and procedure for all the major police jurisdictions, and will research the policies of any police for which they are not yet familiar.

There is no wait time or eligibility wait for a Purge. You can apply at any time!

Apply now to have Express Pardons apply for a purge of your police records or arrest records.