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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71659</law_id><section_number>53.1-162</section_number><catch_line>Arrest of parolee without warrant; written statement</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>53.1-168</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Probation and Parole</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Procedures Governing Parole</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">probation</span> and <span class="dictionary">parole</span> officer may <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> a parolee without a warrant or may deputize any other officer with power of <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> to do so by a written statement setting forth that the parolee has, in the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the <span class="dictionary">probation</span> and <span class="dictionary">parole</span> officer, violated one or more of the terms or conditions of his <span class="dictionary">parole</span>. Such a written statement by a <span class="dictionary">probation</span> and <span class="dictionary">parole</span> officer delivered to the officer in charge of any state or <span class="dictionary">local correctional facility</span> shall be sufficient warrant for the detention of the parolee. Any officer deputized upon receipt of the written statement shall, in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Reports to be made by local law-enforcement officers, conservators of the peace, clerks of court, Secretary of the Commonwealth and Corrections officials to State Police; material submitted by other agencies" href="/19.2-390/">19.2-390</a>, enter, or cause to be entered, the person&#x2019;s name and other appropriate information required by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of State Police into the &#x201C;information systems&#x201D; known as the Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN), established and maintained by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> pursuant to Chapter 2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Establishment of State Police communication system" href="/52-12/">52-12</a> et seq.) of Title 52. Such information shall be deemed a warrant authorizing the <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> of the person anywhere in the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-259; 1982, c. 636; 2000, c. 767; 2010, c. 273; 2025, c. 716.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
