Learn More About Pinellas County Arrest

The Pinellas County Arrest is under the supervision of the Sheriff’s Office. The Florida Statute Chapter 30 outlines the duties and responsibilities of the Pinellas County Sheriff. The chief responsibility of the sheriff is law enforcement. According to the Statute 30, the Sheriffs are the ‘conservators of peace in their counties’. Thus all arrests done within the county are done by the office of the Sheriff on the basis of orders from the court or the county commissioner. The service of all the legal documents is also one of the chief duties of the Sheriff of the Pinellas County, Florida.

Pinellas County Arrest Procedure

The arrest procedure of Pinellas County follows a pattern set by the Florida Constitution and the laws of the state. An arrest warrant is issued against an individual or a business organization by a court of law. It is the duty of the Sheriff and his department to execute the warrant and arrest and detain the individual(s) for presentation at the court of law. After the arrest has been made, the accused is kept in the custody of the Pinellas County jail facility. This jail facility is also under the supervision of the county Sheriff. Maintaining all the arrest records is done by the Sheriff’s office as well as the County Clerk of the Courts.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s department also provides court security and supervises all the jail inmates located within the county. The responsibility of the Sheriff does not end with the arrest of the accused booking him or her and keeping him or her in the custody also fall within the range of his duties.

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office is divided into 5 major bureaus and each deal with a different field of operations with regards to the arrests done in the county. These are as follows:

• Patrol Operations
• Investigative Operations
• Detention and Corrections
• Inspections Bureau
• Support Services

About 3,000 support staff work for the Sheriff in the Pinellas County. Apart from the Sheriff and the Deputy Sheriffs, there are law enforcement deputies, bailiffs, detention deputies, computer programmers, support personnel, fingerprint technician and many others. All these help in conducting an arrest, presenting the charged individual(s) at court, help in investigating a crime, help in detaining the accused in a jail, record all arrests made and provide support services to the community.

You can contact the Sheriff’s Office of the Pinellas County, Florida, at the following address: Main Administrative Bldg (Central District), 10750 Ulmerton Road, Largo, FL 33778. Phone: (727) 582 6200.

If you want to know about the inmates living in the Pinellas County Jail you can contact the authorities at the following address: Pinellas County Jail, 14400 49th Street North Clearwater, FL 33762. Phone: (727) 464 6415

For acquiring general information from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office you can contact (727) 582 6200 or send an email to http://www.pcsoweb.com/pages/http://www.peoplepublicrecords.org/SendMail.html.

Pinellas County Arrest Online Information

If you wish to know whether a certain individual is in the custody of the Pinellas County you can do a quick search online. This helps you to locate an inmate booked in the Pinellas County Jail. This database contains all the arrest records done in the county since November 28, 2005. Updated regularly, this is a comprehensive database that helps you to run a quick scan on an individual’s arrest record. You can check this out at http://www.pcsoweb.com/pages/who_http://www.peoplepublicrecords.org/jail.html.

You need to fill out information like the full name of the individual, the docket number or the booking date for a search. Providing the details such as the race and sex and using filters help to narrow down your search results. The results show all the details of the individual including his or her full name, race, sex, date of birth, address, aliases, identifications, docket number, arrest date, arresting agency, the charges imposed, case details, present status, and such others.

You need not worry if you don’t know the details of the one you are looking for. You can also view all inmates presently in jail from the same website. For this you just need to type in a code and the list of the jail inmates would be displayed on your computer monitor.

If you wish to access the information about the arrests conducted before November 28, 2005 you can have a look at the following website: www.pinellasclerk.org. It is the responsibility of the clerk of the court to keep all the arrest records in a proper order. You can find all the details of the arrests made in the county from this website.