Issue a Warrant For Arrest

Once a Warrant For Arrest is Complete, it can then be issued through the SUMMARY tab by a user with Issuing Authority. To issue a Warrant For Arrest, the user must set Probable Cause and enter a Date Issued. Once a Warrant For Arrest is submitted with these fields, and other information detailed below, the Warrant is active and available for service. Below are the steps to issue a Warrant For Arrest.

Before you start:

Only users with the proper rights can issue a Warrant For Arrest. The various fields related to issuance will not display for users not possessing Issuing Authority.
To be issued, a Warrant For Arrest must contain a Defendant, Complainant, and at least one Felony, Misdemeanor, or Traffic Offense. An Infraction cannot be entered on a Warrant For Arrest as the sole Offense.
Offense data transmitted to NCAWARE via an interface with a local system (i.e. Mecklenburg County) behaves differently than Offense data entered directly into NCAWARE. Click here for more details.

Court information is not required to issue a Warrant For Arrest.
For a Warrant For Arrest where Probable Cause is not found by the Issuing Authority, select No from the Probable Cause dropdown. For more details on this subject , see Finding Probable Cause below.
Once a Warrant for Arrest is issued, certain data is protected from edits by any user besides the issuing authority, proxies thereof, or administrators. See Understanding Process Archiving for more on this subject.

1. Either search for or add a Warrant For Arrest that has a status of Complete.
2. Once the Warrant For Arrest is retrieved from the PROCESS SEARCH RESULTS screen, or added, click the SUMMARY tab.
3. The SUMMARY tab displays. Click the Edit Summary button.
4. The SUMMARY DETAIL screen displays. Enter information into the following required fields to issue the Warrant For Arrest:
1. Once the above fields are populated, enter any relevant information into the Process Information and Law Enforcement Information areas of the screen. For more Help on these areas, see Edit Summary of Warrant For Arrest.
2. Once the entry of on the SUMMARY DETAIL screen is complete, click the Edit button.

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The SUMMARY tab returns. The Warrant for Arrest is now issued and assigned a Criminal Record Number (CR) and a status of Unserved.

The default view of the Warrant changes from the PROCESS TAB VIEW to the CASE SUMMARY TAB VIEW.

The Warrant for Arrest, along with any associated Subpoenas and forms, can be printed. Subpoena data can be viewed on the SUBPOENA tab of the CASE SUMMARY TAB VIEW.

Finding Probable Cause - On a Warrant For Arrest, Probable Cause must be found on the whole process, not on individual Offenses (Probable Cause dropdown = Yes). To find No Probable Cause for an individual Offense, simply delete the Offenses for which No Probable Cause applies.

If all Offenses are found to have No Probable Cause, select NO in the Probable Cause dropdown and select an option from the Issued By dropdown. Once completed, select the Edit button. A Warrant For Arrest found to have No Probable Cause will have a status of Denied.

For a listing of associated rules for this topic, click here.