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Not all Police Officers are issued badge numbers. However, most municipalities require Police Officers to provide specific identifying information to you about who they are in the event you need to file a formal complaint.
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Sebastian Martinez
Police officers are required to display and provide their identification on request—except when they aren't. Many of us believe that we can ask any police officer for their name or badge number, and that a refusal to provide it is a violation of the law.
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Can a police officer refuse to give his badge number?
A police officer should show his badge when he approaches you. If the badge is not visible, ask to see it. If you ask for the badge number, the officer should give it to you. If the officer refuses, you should report it to the police department.
What do the numbers under badge mean?
If you are referring to a police officers badge, each officer is assigned a personal identification number. If you had a reason to find out or indicate who a particular officer is or was, you could give his/her badge number, and this number would identify the officer. In other words, the number connects to a name.
Officer bill gannon badge number on dragnet?
3568
Can you find out a police officer name and badge number if they were sent to your house?
You can certainly ask, although the police department where the officer is employed will probably want to know your reason for the request. If the officer engaged in misconduct, you will probably be asked to make a formal report. You are not obligated to do so.
Does a New York City police officer have to give you their name when asked?
Yes. Also his badge number, station house, and superior officer- unless you are being arrested, in which case your civil rights are temporarily in abeyance until the danger you represent is contained.
What is a officer's badge called?
It is most commonly referred to as their 'badge' but it is also known as an officer's 'shield.'
How do you look up badge numbers?
I assume you want a badge number to make a complaint. Call the Police Department where the officer works. Then ask for Internal Affairs. They can find out which officer was working in the area where the problem occurred.
How many police badges can you earn?
If you are referring to the badge that is issued to a law enforcement officer, they only get one, typically with the officers "badge number" affixed to, or engraved on, it. If they are promoted and move to a higher rank they will be issued another badge which reflects their new rank and new number. They can "earn" as many badges as the ranks to which they may be promoted. Upon promotion they surrender their former badge back to the department or agency and it and the number are re-assigned to a new officer. Badge numbers are customarily never 'retired' from use unless the officer that carried it at the time was killed in the line of duty.
How can you locate a police officer by name?
You would have to know what police department that police officer works for. Most agencies have the same type of numbering system. Assuming you know that information, just call that agency's non emergency phone number and talk to the dispatchers. Badge numbers are public record and they have to let you know who it belongs to, at least their last name. If your purpose was to file a complaint, or commend an officer, you can always do so by using the badge number instead of the name. They will figure it out and the process will continue as it should.
How do you find out if a police officer is retired?
You ask the police officer, or they would've turned in their badge,you would see them without a badge.
What is it that an officer has to have before he can get a warrant?
a badge
How many numbers in a police badge?
In most cases, badges are issued to officers when they graduate from their basic police (academy) training. However, not all badge have numbers, and the officer's "badge number" may not have anything to do with his badge. Most officers do have a number associated with their law enforcement position, but this might be a state commission number, issued by the agency that certifies all officers in that state. In that case, the officer would keep the same number at any agency he worked within that state, even if he changed departments one or more times. The officer's number may be a serial number indicating his seniority among other governmental or department employees.
