Texas Mexico Law

316.1 Detective Checkout of Prisoners A: Prisoners will only be moved from one facility to another to conduct a live lineup, if the prisoner is suspected of notorious crime such as murder, serial rape, etc. or to have a test on their hair or blood. If translation is needed or it is a time sensitive […]

Prisoner Disposition Writ of Habeas Corpus A Writ of Habeas Corpus received from a judge by telephone must be honored as though it were received in person. The supervisor over the section charged with the investigation of the offense must be contacted and advised of the writ. If the supervisor over that unit is not

Prisoner Warning and Jail Docket A: Court dockets are available 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. All court dockets open with a waring docket, which is then followed by a Class C misdemeanor docket. B: A Fort Worth judge is also available 24 hours a day, seven hours a week.316.3 Prisoners requiring

Aggravated Robbery At least two cops need to get sent for all robbery alarms or robberies that are still happening. If they can, the call taker needs to try and get the caller the stay on the phone so that they can keep giving updates. The cops that get sent on robbery calls always need

Deceased Persons The supervisor needs to be told whenever a dead person is found and it’s not at a hospital. If the dead person is at a hospital and was there for more than a day, or the person had a pretty bad medical problem, (which means it was natural causes) the medical investigator gets

319.1 Property Evidence Submission A: All property of a prisoner or evidence should be brought into custody by and officer and should be properly marked and brought to the correct storage room. This includes found, abandoned, taken away and evidence. Evidence should be properly marked. Property and evidence should be put in the property room,

Disposition of Weapons Unless the weapon may have been stolen, lost, brought away or just moved in general, it shouldn’t be touched. If the weapon isn’t taken from the victim, it should be left where it was found. If the weapon gets taken from the attacker or the victim, the officer that takes it needs

Witnesses If there are any witnesses to a crime, the need to stay at the scene until somebody is able to interview them from the police. They can also choose to make their statement at the police station instead of the actual scene if they want though. If the witness is under 18, they need

Police Actions Where an Offense is Involved When cops get to a scene where a mentally ill person did commit a crime, then they arrest them like any other person at first. If they still have a risk to hurt somebody else or themselves, or they already have hurt themselves, they should be brought to

Mentally Disturbed Persons Whenever there’s a call with a mentally ill person involved, a supervisor should get a call. Seeing as there’s a pretty big possibility for things to get violent, there should always be at least 2 cops that go to calls like this. They should get as much info about the person before