booking photos

Police intake pictures

Booking photos are the mugshots taken when someone is arrested and processed into custody.

Police photograph arrestees from the front and side against a plain background for identification records.

These photos often surface in news coverage of arrests or on websites that publish arrest records: His booking photo appeared on the front page.

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