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Warrants are NOT issued by the police. Warrants are issued by the court - they are then given to the police to carry out. The police operate on PROBABLE CAUSE, and if you know that they want someone, perhaps they do not have sufficient probable cause for an arrest or, perhaps, they may not have been able to locate the individual.

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