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Street Cop Podcast

Plate Check, Warrant Check, Criminal History Lookup

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Dennis answers a call about when it is appropriate to do a partial vs. full plate check while not engaged in a traffic stop and describes when it is appropriate to do a warrant check and criminal history lookup while engaged in a traffic stop.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One, the question I can't.

0:02.0

The way, uh-huh.

0:04.0

Uh-huh.

0:05.0

You trying to be a street cop?

0:10.0

Question came in. It's a question I get often. The question I get often.

0:14.0

We have the person who asked a question on the phone.

0:16.0

So first off, I'm going to answer the question that you gave me.

0:19.0

And the question basically was, and then you can elaborate from there,

0:22.0

okay? Yeah. The question was, when can we check

0:26.2

license plates and people basically? So let me start with license plates.

0:31.8

You're allowed to check random plates. You're allowed to check random plates on a partial

0:35.8

look up, right? So if you sat on the side of the road or ran an automatic

0:39.0

license plate reader, it's allowed to reveal information. It's allowed to

0:42.1

reveal, I think, the making model of the car,

0:44.0

make sure the appropriate plates on it,

0:46.5

but not much more than that.

0:47.8

What that F1 quote unquote lookup is,

0:51.6

it's to reveal the status of the vehicle whether it's

0:54.6

unregistered expired suspended or stolen or the same that applies to the

0:59.2

owner being suspended, unlicensed, or wanted in some facet.

1:06.6

So with that, you need no constitutional requisite to run somebody's plate randomly, a partial

1:16.1

look up what they call it. Now we go to the next stage. At F2, a full

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