Ok...I've always wondered what is the jurisdiction of a City Police Officer...I always assumed that it was their assigned city limits...

Just to inform you why I ask...Prom night last year I was really tired and just wanted to get to my firends house to crash so I was driving somewhat speedly following this red Grand Prix...well not wanting to wait for him to speed up after going from 85-50 mph...I passed and too late I realized that my foot was all the way to the floor while passin my home town's city police officer...and he was on the highway of the neighboring town...he did have a juvinile that he was taking home so that was his reasoning for being there, and he was nice and all...and yes it was dumb for me to be pulling that crap on prom night...but it always pisses me off when I see that black and white Crown Vic driving on the highway between some neighboring towns....

So...I am curious as to what the jurisdiction of city police officers are....thanks all

dont speed and youll never have any problems........

0h n03z, god forbid a police officer should do his job in pulling over a speeder!

if i were you, i'd ask the local precinct this question.

dont get on his case guys, its an honest question i wonder myself...

they have jurisdiction over the town in which their badge is issued.

First off, I completely agree with not driving like that...

I'm not sure about the US... It's divided up differently than Canada, but, depending on where you were snagged, and which Police dept. was involved (and at what level of gov't), you're probably SOL.

I know that here in Ottawa (RCMP, Provincial Police and Local Police, 3 layers of jurisdiction not including Military police), you can be stopped or arrested by any police officer pretty much anywhere in the region, but, for speeding, you can be ticketed by a local cop anywhere, OPP only on their designated corridors (basically highway areas, and some far-outlaying areas), and RCMP have even smaller areas (Embassies, Federal roadways, federal government buildings).

Again, I'm not sure if you can be ticketed by a local PD's officer outside their jurisdictional boundaries, but if there's that big of a fine or points involved, you're within your rights to dispute the ticket, just keep in mind, you're not going to win any friends in the local PD.



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It depends. some police are City cops and have jurisdiction over just their town. some have been given police authority in their town and surrounding towns, and some have been granted the same status as sherifs (entire county) It all depends on how your town handles it's police. Ask one of them. As far as I know, a police officer can always radio in and get authorisation from the town or county he is in to make a stop as well.


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Grimor wrote:It depends. some police are City cops and have jurisdiction over just their town. some have been given police authority in their town and surrounding towns, and some have been granted the same status as sherifs (entire county) ...

Yeppers. Out in my neck of the woods, the cops here are all county sherriffs. They have an interjurisdiction agreement with the next town over (which just so happens to be in another county). That town's cops all drive cars marked <city> Police, but also are sherriffs for that county. On top of that, we got the state patrol out here every so often, which to the best of my knowledge only have jurisdiction on an actual state route or interstate...

In any case, that was all set up because of budget issues. There are only 3 county cars for my county, 4 for the adjoining and somewhere in the neighborhood of 200+ square miles to cover (extreme rural).

I shudder to think what kind of internet service you have Kardain... Smoke-signals?



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where i live its pretty much only the town they are a cop in. they can still pull you over in a different town but they can not cite you unless they call for an officer in that town. now im right outside of philly and i know philly cops have a good limit they can go. i see them all the time outside of philly sitting on I95 like 3 miles out of the city limits. i know the port authority has a 3 mile distance on each side of the bridge they can patrol

GAM (The Kilted One) wrote:I shudder to think what kind of internet service you have Kardain... Smoke-signals?

LMAO not quite that bad, but pretty close... I am only blessed with dial-up that gets on a good day 44 kbps.

Now, if I were to move a mile down the road, I'd have broadband... it's like it gets cut off at a certain intersection and no infrastructure was placed on my part of the street.

lol.. that's not good... time to get a can-tenna and a friend up the road




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can-tenna's in the works wireless hotspot in line-of-sight at the boundary of broadband. Now, this'll only be used for the large downloads, and in shotgun with my dial-up connection. Every day interweb surfin will be done off the good ol' phone line.

And this is an open-to-public, no-cost hotspot.

Damn...

I'd do the opposite... do the DL's off the modem (they're going to take a while on a somewhat loaded hub anyhow) and surf off the wireless. Get the mundane stuff done done fast, you know?



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My d/u ISP has a 6 hr time frame, then auto-resets the connection, so that takes care of the large d/l's... besides, I got the cache on my puter set so goddamned high, mundane is nothin.

Well that settles it




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well aroudn here, Harrisburg, Pa, the city cops can only get u in their city, township cops in their townsip, and so on. But then we have the York Regionals who have a big area to patrol and they can basically get u anywhere in southern York County. But.....there's always a but......local cops cant pull you over on the highway, and cant use radar, only tha state cops can do that here

I wonder what the protocol is for chases that go inter-jurisdictional?



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Thanks guys for all your input

I believe that the (now) out-of jurisdiction cop would still retain jurisdiction seeing how the chase originated within their jurisdiction. Either that, or they would radio ahead to those that do have jurisdiction and have them continue pursuit.

i'm sure they still have jurisdiction, as long as you commited the offense in thier jurisdiction
but i wish it was still like the good ole days in the south where all u had to do was cross the line and you were free to go

When were those days? Pre-radio installation?




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c'mon GAM havent you ever watched Porkey's or any tv show of the "good ol south"??

Those weren't the Good ole days... at least, not in your or my lifetime



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I got pulled over when I was 17, just outside of city limits.. It was a city cop that pulled me over.. He said he couldn't give me a ticket, so I thought I'd be in the clear.. Instead he made me sit in my car till an RCMP officer came up, and he gave me a ticket. I was pissed.. lol.





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