Sentences with phrase «powers of peace officers»

Secondly, the Act allows the person having charge of a public work to appoint guards having the powers of peace officers under the Act.

Our Humane Officers are empowered through California Corporations Code 14502 to exercise the powers of a peace officer while investigating animal - related crimes.

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He also routinely vetoes legislation to let various groups of local security guards such as employees of Port Chester's village court and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center be considered «peace officers» and have some powers akin to police officers; he's argued this status should not be granted piecemeal, but as part of a «comprehensive, State - wide, process.»

«That the three hundred thousand Naira (N300, 000) to the senior and one hundred and fifty thousand Naira (N150, 000) to junior staff became necessary in pursuit of the general powers and mandate of the Acting Vice-Chancellor as the Chief Security Officer on the campus to maintain peace, law and order and to prevent loss of lives and property.

Murabito said more than half of community colleges in the state now employ peace officers, who are armed and have full police powers, but only on campus.

The case did not determine whether a peace officer's powers under section 48 were limited to highways simply because section 48 did not exist at the time of Mansour.

487.11 Either a peace officer or a public officer who has been appointed or designated to administer or enforce a federal or provincial law and whose duties include the enforcement of this or any other Act of Parliament may, in the course of their duties, exercise any of the powers described in section 487, 492.1 or 492.2 without a warrant if the conditions for obtaining a warrant exist but it would not be feasible to obtain a warrant because of exigent circumstances.

Members of the campus police department shall have the powers of municipal peace officers and county sheriffs.

In other words, while it is the duty of police officers to preserve peace and prevent crime, and these duties are broad in scope, the powers that may be lawfully deployed in the execution of those duties are not co-extensive — rather they are narrowed by competing social values.

AB 68 Expands Commission on Judicial Discipline's power to include a person who is a former justice, judge, justice of the peace or other officer of the Judicial Branch who presides over judicial proceedings if the conduct at issue occurred while the person was serving in any such position.

This is in stark contrast with the general law of search, established in cases such as R. v. Mann, which prevents peace officers from using a specific, narrowly defined search power to engage in a «fishing expedition» for unrelated incriminating evidence.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) and subject to section 9, nothing in this Act affects the powers conferred by the common law on police officers to deal with breaches of the peace.