Welcome to the Riverside Police Online Reporting System. If this is an Emergency call 9-1-1.By filing a complaint with the police department, you can demand the officer face repercussions for their false arrest. Civil Code 47.5 (View note below) allows peace officers to bring civil action against a person filing a false complaint. A false arrest is one way of committing false imprisonment. To prove false arrest, a person must prove three elements. In this blog, we'll discuss how wrongful arrests happen and explore what you can do if a police officer unlawfully arrested you. Call the General Investigations Bureau's front office at (951) 353-7100. If you have a complaint against a police officer or sheriff's deputy, you should first direct your complaint to the local law enforcement agency. Unfortunately, because of institutional pressures (i.e.