Procedimientos para arrestos sin orden en casos de violencia familiar y acoso

Explicación Simple

Si alguien te está lastimando en casa o te está acosando, la policía puede arrestarlo sin esperar una orden. Esto es para protegerte rápidamente.

Es como cuando un amigo ve que alguien te molesta en una fiesta y decide intervenir de inmediato, sin esperar a que llegue el organizador del evento.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Ana está en su casa y su expareja, Carlos, llega y comienza a hacerle amenazas. Ana llama a la policía y, al llegar, los oficiales ven que Carlos está actuando de forma violenta. Ellos pueden arrestarlo sin esperar una orden judicial para asegurarse de que Ana esté a salvo.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

697 , 721 , 807 ; 2002, cc. 810 , 818 ; 2004, c. 1016 ; 2008, cc. 551 , 691 ; 2011, cc. 445 , 480 ; 2012, cc. 776 , 827 ; 2014, cc. 779 , 797 ; 2025, cc. 619 , 639 . Va. Code § 19.2-81.4 - Repealed. Repealed by Acts 2008, cc. 600 and 771 , cl. 2. Va. Code § 19.2-81.5 - Cooperation with a law-enforcement officer. Upon receipt of a request and documentation of an indictment or issuance of a warrant from a law-enforcement agency, any public agency within the Commonwealth may disclose to the requesting law-enforcement agency from agency records, to the extent permitted by federal law, the address of an individual who has been indicted or for whom a warrant for arrest for a crime punishable by incarceration has been issued. 1998, c. 436 . Va. Code § 19.2-81.6 - Authority of law-enforcement officers to arrest illegal aliens. All law-enforcement officers enumerated in § 19.2-81 shall have the authority to enforce immigration laws of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of this section. Any law-enforcement officer enumerated in § 19.2-81 may, in the course of acting upon reasonable suspicion that an individual has committed or is committing a crime, arrest the individual without a warrant upon receiving confirmation from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the United States Department of Homeland Security that the individual (i) is an alien illegally present in the United States, and (ii) has previously been convicted of a felony in the United States and deported or left the United States after such conviction. Upon receiving such confirmation, the officer shall take the individual forthwith before a magistrate or other issuing authority and proceed pursuant to § 19.2-82 . 2004, cc. 360 , 412 .