Connecticut HB 6466: AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS OF A MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICER PROVIDING ASSISTANCE IN ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY ON REQUEST.

Bill Text

LCO No. 2229 1 of 1

General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6466
January Session, 2023 LCO No. 2229

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY

Introduced by:
REP. PAVALOCK-D'AMATO, 77th Dist.
REP. HOXHA, 78th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS OF A MUNICIPAL POLICE
OFFICER PROVIDING ASSISTANCE IN ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY ON
REQUEST.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That section 54-1f of the general statutes be amended to provide that 1
a municipal police officer who provides assistance in another 2
municipality, pursuant to the request of the other municipality's chief of 3
police under a mutual aid agreement, has the same arrest powers in the 4
other municipality as the officer has in the officer's own municipality. 5
Statement of Purpose:
To specify that a municipal police officer providing assistance in another
municipality, on a request from the other municipality's police chief, has
the same arrest powers in the other municipality as the officer has in the
officer's own municipality.