Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE:
BONDSMAN/AGENT ARRESTS OF BAIL
JUMPERS
NO: H-310
APPROVED:
Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE:
December 14, 1998
REVIEWED:
10/20/2020
REVISED:
00/00/00
UPDATED:
11/17/2017
H-310-1
POLICY
If a bondsman or their agent contacts the Sheriff’s Office asking for assistance in arresting a
person who has been admitted to bail in another state, who has escaped bail, and who is presently
in Kern County, Sheriff’s deputies will verify the following prior to making the arrest:
There is a warrant for the individual in NCIC, or
that a bondsman or their agent seeking to arrest a fugitive in our jurisdiction has filed
an affidavit with a magistrate in Kern County which states the name and
whereabouts of the fugitive, the offense with which the alleged fugitive was charged,
or of which he was convicted, the time and place of same, and the particulars in
which the fugitive has violated the terms of his bail
If there