Jail Cell and Squad Car Cleaning

We already work beside law enforcement constantly — our crews enter most trauma scenes minutes after your investigators release them. This service points that same training at your own facilities and vehicles, with invoicing and reporting built for how agencies actually buy: purchase orders, per-incident billing, or standing contracts. Your procurement office will not have to teach us anything.

Why shouldn’t inmates or staff clean a contaminated cell?

Because OSHA says so, and because liability lawyers love it when agencies forget. The bloodborne pathogen standard requires that anyone cleaning blood or body fluids be trained, equipped, vaccinated against hepatitis B on the employer’s dime, and covered by an exposure control plan. A trustee with a mop meets none of that. A corrections officer pulled off post rarely meets all of it either. One exposure incident — a needle stick during cleanup, hepatitis contracted from a contaminated surface — costs more in workers’ comp and litigation than years of professional decontamination.

There’s an operational angle too. Cell extractions, suicide attempts, and medical events leave contamination in places facility staff aren’t equipped to reach: inside door tracks, under bunk welds, in drain grates. Our technicians clean to clearance-test standards and hand your administrator documentation that stands up in an audit, a grievance hearing, or a courtroom.

How fast can a patrol vehicle return to service?

Most vehicles are back on the road the same day, often within hours of the call. Every hour a unit sits contaminated is an hour of coverage your shift commander has to backfill, so we treat vehicle work as fleet downtime, not janitorial work. Blood in the rear compartment, fentanyl residue from a search, vomit, OC spray saturation after a transport — the crew decontaminates the cage, seats, belts, door panels, and the ventilation system, because whatever was airborne in that compartment went through the vents too.

K-9 units get particular care around residue toxicity, and unmarked and undercover vehicles stay unmarked in every sense: our own vehicles carry no lettering, so a decontamination visit never advertises which car in the lot is the surveillance unit.

Can agencies set up recurring decontamination contracts?

Yes, and the agencies that do stop thinking about this problem entirely. A standing agreement gets you negotiated per-incident rates, guaranteed response windows, scheduled preventive service for booking areas and holding cells, and a single vendor file your finance office renews once a year instead of a new procurement scramble after every incident. Month-to-month, annual, or multi-agency regional arrangements all work; we’ll draft against your county’s standard vendor terms. Many pair a contract with scheduled facility disinfection between incidents.

For one-off incidents, no contract is needed. Call, give us the facility or fleet location, and we’ll dispatch against a PO number or a procurement card, with the paperwork your auditor expects to see attached to the invoice.

What We Handle for Agencies

• Holding cells, drunk tanks, booking counters, and sally ports after bleeds, fights, or medical events.
• Suicide and attempted-suicide scenes in cells, with respect for the deceased and for your staff who responded.
• Patrol cars, transport vans, and prisoner buses — biological contamination and drug residue.
• Fentanyl and meth residue in evidence rooms, interview rooms, and vehicle compartments.
• Squad room, locker room, and lobby decontamination after exposure incidents.
• You speak to a person immediately — no phone tree, day or night.

Built for How Agencies Operate

Background-checked technicians who follow facility security protocols without complaint. Work scheduled around count times, shift changes, and court transport windows. Documentation written for CALEA files and jail inspection reports, not homeowner insurance claims. And discretion that runs both directions — we don’t discuss agency work with the public, full stop. The same crews that keep a widow’s privacy on a residential street keep yours in the county lot. The same account structure covers our commercial biohazard work for county buildings beyond the jail.

We serve departments and facilities everywhere in the US except California, from single-cell rural lockups to metro fleets, all through 844-326-6800.

The Liability Math Every Administrator Should Run

Consider the true cost of the in-house approach. An officer or a trustee cleans a bloody cell without proper training or equipment. Nine times out of ten nothing happens, and that’s the trap — the nine quiet times make the tenth look unlikely. On the tenth, someone contracts hepatitis from a surface, or gets stuck by a concealed needle, or is later diagnosed with an illness they trace back to that shift. Now you’re looking at a workers’ compensation claim, a possible OSHA citation for lacking an exposure control plan, and potentially litigation, all stacked against whatever you “saved” by not calling a professional crew.

Set that against a per-incident decontamination invoice and the arithmetic isn’t close. Professional biohazard cleanup is a small, predictable operating cost. An exposure incident is an unpredictable liability that can run into six figures once comp, legal, and settlement are totaled — plus the harder-to-quantify cost of an injured officer and the message it sends to everyone who watched it happen. Agencies that switch to professional decontamination almost never switch back, and it’s rarely because of the cleaning quality alone. It’s because the risk stopped being theirs to carry.

Documentation That Survives an Audit

Corrections and law enforcement operate under scrutiny that most businesses never face: jail inspections, accreditation reviews, grievance processes, and the ever-present possibility that a cell or a vehicle becomes relevant to a lawsuit. When that happens, “we cleaned it” is not an answer. “Here is the dated, itemized record of who decontaminated it, by what method, verified how” is an answer. Every job we do for an agency produces that record, formatted for the files your inspectors and accreditation bodies actually keep.

That paper trail does double duty. It proves the facility met its safety obligations, and it protects individual staff from being second-guessed later about a cleanup they were never trained to perform in the first place. When a plaintiff’s attorney asks how a contaminated cell was handled, the difference between a professional’s documented process and an officer’s improvised effort can be the difference between a defensible position and an expensive one. Build the habit before you need it — the number is 844-326-6800.

Questions From Command Staff

How is this priced?

Per incident, quoted from the scene description before dispatch, or at contract rates if your agency holds an agreement with us. Vehicles price lower than cells; cells price lower than pods. No emergency surcharges for nights or weekends — a 3 a.m. incident bills like a 3 p.m. one.

Who pays — the agency or its insurer?

Most agencies pay directly through operations or fleet budgets, and some route incidents through their risk pool or municipal insurer. Our invoices and reports satisfy both paths; tell us which one finance prefers and the paperwork will match it.

If insurance doesn’t cover everything, payment options exist if cost is a concern.

What’s the response time commitment?

Same-day response in most service areas for incident calls, with defined response windows written into standing contracts. If a cell or a unit is critical to tonight’s operations, say so at dispatch — critical-path jobs move to the front.

Can you clean while the facility stays operational?

Yes. We contain and clean occupied facilities routinely, working cell by cell or section by section with your shift supervisor so headcount management never depends on our schedule.

Are your technicians cleared to work inside a secure facility?

Yes. Our crews are background-checked and trained to follow facility security protocols — sign-in, escort requirements, tool control, count procedures — without needing to be managed. We’re used to working inside secure perimeters, and we treat your security rules as non-negotiable, because we know a decontamination crew that creates a security headache isn’t worth calling twice.

Can you respond to multiple facilities across a county or region?

Yes, and multi-facility and regional arrangements are some of our most efficient work. A county running a jail, several substations, and a vehicle fleet can consolidate all of it under one agreement with consistent rates and one reporting format, instead of each facility improvising its own solution. Sheriffs’ offices and regional corrections authorities do this with us regularly. Agencies also call us out to crime scenes and blood spills in the community itself.

What about odor after a death or a long occupancy in a cell?

Odor treatment is part of the job, not an add-on. A cell that held a decomposition or a long-term medical situation needs the source removed and the air itself treated, or the smell lingers and the cell stays effectively out of service. We treat it to the point where the space reads as neutral and can go back into rotation.

The Standards Behind Every Job

• Every call reaches a live person, 24 hours a day — no menus, no waiting.
• Crews follow OSHA bloodborne pathogen rules and EPA cleanup standards on every scene.
• Contaminated materials leave as regulated medical waste via licensed, documented transport.
• We document the whole job for insurance and, where allowed, bill your carrier for you.
• Plain, unmarked vehicles and quiet crews keep the reason for our visit private.
• Every job ends with verification testing, so ‘clean’ is a measurement, not an opinion.

What Clients Say

On Call Bio was very professional and was able to accommodate the urgency in the situation. They explained the services and was able to relieve my worries.

Latoya

On Call Bio was very professional… I would recommend them to future clients because of my experience with the professional work done during this stressful time.

Michael G.

Put It On Our Shift

Your people signed up to protect the public, not to scrub cells. Move contamination off their duty list with one call to 844-326-6800 — an actual human answers, any hour, and a crew rolls when you say roll.