police records
Law enforcement files
Police records are official documents maintained by law enforcement agencies detailing arrests, criminal charges, investigations, and related activities.
They include arrest records, incident reports, and booking information.
Someone's police record is their history of encounters with law enforcement: His police record made it hard to find work.
Police records may be sealed or expunged under certain legal conditions.
- mugshotsPolice identification photographs
- booking photoArrest intake photograph
- FOIA requestsDemands for government documents
- incident reportsDocumented accounts of events
- witness statementsFormal accounts from observers
fingerprints · case files · cold case · aliases · Miranda rights · warrants · arrest warrant · wanted posters · expunged · internal affairs · rap sheet · disciplinary actions · forensic reports · sealed · criminal history · prior convictions · blotter · report
- crime recordscase files, court cases, mugshots, rap sheets, incident reports
- police recordsarrest report, incident report, case files, crime report, incident reports
- Criminal Investigationdetective, crime scene, crime investigation, forensics, investigator
- policeofficer, cop, officers, patrol, cops
- policingpatrol, arrests, arrest, badges, cops
- government recordsstate laws, federal contracts, executive orders, federal regulations, presidential papers
police recordspersonal diaries
Private daily written records
personal correspondence · private letters · diary entries · memoirs · oral histories
police recordsclean record
Absence of prior offenses
clean slate · spotless record · sealed records · character references
police recordspublic records
Officially filed, publicly accessible documents