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WHITTIER
POLICE JAIL
The
Whittier Police Department operates a Type 1 Jail,
which us a temporary holding facility. Our
facility holds prisoners for up to 72 hours in
most cases. After the 72-hour period the prisoner is turned over to
the court.
The jail operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
and is responsible for the
processing of all prisoners. This includes and is
not limited to booking, fingerprinting,
photographing, feeding, issuing clothing and
personal items and physically monitoring the
prisoner while they are in our facility.
Jail personnel use a sophisticated finger-printing identification system called
LiveScan. The Live Scan Fingerprint System is an
automated system that provides an effective way of
capturing a person's fingerprints, without the use
of ink. Designed for law enforcement agencies that
require fingerprint systems for identification,
the Live Scan unit offers several advantages over
the traditional ink method.
The Live Scan unit enables subjects' fingerprints
to be transmitted by phone lines to the California
Department of Justice in Sacramento. This
capability provides timely identification of
individuals, while they are still in custody.
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