- Fugitive recovery is simply the process of
finding fugitives, apprehending them and returning them back to custody or
putting them in jail.
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- The most common definition of a fugitive is
a person who is running from the law; whether it is hiding to avoid an
arrest or someone who is being looked for by the recovery agents for
skipping on a bail bond.
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- Referring to this use of the term,
fugitives are persons who are actively concealing themselves in an effort to
avoid criminal prosecution. Many types of careers, both public and
private, actively engage people whose job it is to find and recover those
who are missing from the criminal justice system. A "Fugitive
Recovery Agent" is in the private sector while public sector
jobs include police officers at the state, county and city levels and
Federal law enforcement agents such as members of the U.S. Marshal Service
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Fugitive
recovery agents are those individuals, working in the private sector, who
are hired by bail bondsmen to secure the apprehension of criminal defendants
who have failed to appear in court as promised when they signed an
appearance bond with a bail bond company. They
are called fugitive recovery agents because they work fugitive cases and
their job is the recovery of fugitives. They are most often acting on
behalf of the Bail Bondsmen as his agent.
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