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b. Keys to unlock the cells are located on a hook under the booking counter. C. All cells,when not in use,will remain unlocked. 5. Only one prisoner shall be placed in Cell A and Cell B at any one time, unless the booking officer is using the cells during the course of prisoner processing and/or investigation, and the booking officer remains in the Holding Cell area. D. Headquarters Personnel 1. The Headquarters personnel, upon being notified a prisoner was placed in a cell,will notify the Telecommunications Center so the cell can be monitored. 2. When Headquarters is advised the prisoners are ready for transportation,they will notify the Telecommunications Center. 3. Headquarters personnel shall make one check of the Holding Cells at the beginning of their shift, to assure no one has been left in the cells. a. The exception to the initial shift check shall be when a prisoner is placed in a Holding Cell. In this instance, a card will be posted at the Headquarters Desk. As long as the card remains posted,the Holding Cells will be checked hourly. 4. The Watch Commander will make at least one check of the Holding Cells during his/her tour of duty,to assure the Holding Cells are maintained and being used in compliance with this General Order. E. Right of Arrested Person to Make a Telephone Call (851.5 PC) 1. Under normal procedures,the San Joaquin County Sheriffs Department personnel handle the arrested subject. If the booking is temporary in a police facility holding cell,the booking officer must be familiar with Section 851.5 of the State Penal Code. a. An arrested person has the right, immediately upon being booked,to make at least three completed telephone calls. Except where physically impossible,the calls must be allowed to be made no later than three hours after arrest. The calls will be made at no expense to the person, if completed to numbers within the local calling area. (1) If the calls are made to areas outside of the local calling area,they will be made at the expense of the arrested subject. (2) These calls may Ibe made as follows: (a) An attomey of the subject's choice,or, if the subject has no funds,the public defender or other attorney assigned by the court to assist indigents,whose telephone number shall be posted.This phone call shall not be monitored,eavesdropped upon,or recorded. (b) A bail bondsman. (c) A relative or other person. P-9 Page 3 of 3