[CJStudent]

Kentucky County Attorney Detectives are full sworn peace officers, with full law enforcement authority on or off duty, county wide (in some situations, statewide).

 

[scottydl]

It's county by county in Illinois. DA's are SA's here. Most of them don't have any separate investigators, they just use their respective Sheriff's Department... all of whom are sworn officers of course. Cook County (Chicago) is one exception, they have a variety of divisions of sworn county investigators... including SA's Office and Corrections.

 

[bubbles911]

I love "real cop" threads...

Bubbles, which county are you referring to? I was not aware of any county attorney investigators in Iowa.

Polk, we have 6.

 

[kpuscg04]

Polk, we have 6.

Makes sense.

 

[jpa]

Nevada....

NRS 289.170 Special investigators employed by Attorney General; investigators employed by district attorney. Special investigators employed by the Attorney General and investigators employed by a district attorney have the powers of a peace officer.

(Added to NRS by 1993, 2520

 

[ditchdoc24]

Here in Georgia, the larger DA offices have their own investigators. They are sworn officers who are POST certified and carry weapons. One of the guys from my academy class is working as an investigator for a Metro Atlanta DAs office now. I'm not sure if the DA for my circuit even has investigators. We share an ADA with another county and I've never seen any.

 

[17445]

All DA Investigators in California, to the best of my knowledge, are "real cops" and defined as such in the same Penal Code section that defines city police officers, deputy sheriffs, etc.

DA Investigators are "Peace Officers" within the meaning of the Penal Code, section 830, et.al. which also includes police, sheriffs, CHP, state investigators for various departments, etc.

 

[cowboywannabe]

thanks to all whom answered, and thanks to those whom were able to show statutes.

 

[merlynusn]

Our DA's Office uses detectives from the local police and the county sheriff. They don't hire their own. Since they are sworn through a regular agency, they are full LEOs.

I don't know what the actual statute says, but I'm curious because I've thought of it as a good retirement gig. I'll post it when I find it.

 

[Kilrain]

DA Investigators are "Peace Officers" within the meaning of the Penal Code, section 830, et.al. which also includes police, sheriffs, CHP, state investigators for various departments, etc.

Yeah, that's what I said..............

 

[17445]

Yeah, that's what I said..............

I know, I quoted you to give you the original credit and I expanded on it with the specific cite and affirmed it absolutely in the positive while you said "to the best of your knowledge".

Here is the quote:

Penal Code 830.1. (a) Any sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff, employed in that capacity, of a county, any chief of police of a city or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a consolidated municipal public safety agency that performs police functions, any police officer, employed in that capacity and appointed by the chief of police or chief, director, or chief executive of a public safety agency, of a city, any chief of police, or police officer of a district, including police officers of the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police, authorized by statute to maintain a police department, any marshal or deputy marshal of a superior court or county, any port warden or port police officer of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles, or any inspector or investigator employed in that capacity in the office of a district attorney, is a peace officer. The authority of these peace officers extends to any place in the state, as follows:

 

[Kilrain]

I know, I quoted you to give you the original credit and I expanded on it with the specific cite and affirmed it absolutely in the positive while you said "to the best of your knowledge".

Here is the quote:

Penal Code 830.1. (a) Any sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff, employed in that capacity, of a county, any chief of police of a city or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a consolidated municipal public safety agency that performs police functions, any police officer, employed in that capacity and appointed by the chief of police or chief, director, or chief executive of a public safety agency, of a city, any chief of police, or police officer of a district, including police officers of the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police, authorized by statute to maintain a police department, any marshal or deputy marshal of a superior court or county, any port warden or port police officer of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles, or any inspector or investigator employed in that capacity in the office of a district attorney, is a peace officer. The authority of these peace officers extends to any place in the state, as follows:

I see. I was just tossing it out there from general knowledge, thanks for the clarification.

:supergrin:

 

[merlynusn]

After looking, I don't think they are in NC. They used to be, but not that I can see. Our general statute for CCW says that they are exempt from the provisions if they have a CCW. So, it would stand to reason that since they need a CCW, they aren't sworn on their own unless they are through a sponsoring agency (the investigators here are part of the police and sheriff's depts).

 

[Ten-42]

It's county by county in Illinois. DA's are SA's here. Most of them don't have any separate investigators, they just use their respective Sheriff's Department... all of whom are sworn officers of course. Cook County (Chicago) is one exception, they have a variety of divisions of sworn county investigators... including SA's Office and Corrections.

Lake County SA's office has sworn investigators both full and part-time. Excellent resource for identity theft/cyber crime/child porn cases.

 

[ateamer]

Our county's DA inspectors are peace officers. Why they need full peace officer status to drink coffee at the county cafeteria all morning, give all their subpoenae to other agencies to serve and kick back all the followup to the agencies, no one knows. Oh, and they get paid equivalent to our top-step detective sergeants and none of them have made a felony arrest in years.

 

[17445]

Our county's DA inspectors are peace officers. Why they need full peace officer status to drink coffee at the county cafeteria all morning, give all their subpoenae to other agencies to serve and kick back all the followup to the agencies, no one knows. Oh, and they get paid equivalent to our top-step detective sergeants and none of them have made a felony arrest in years.

They are pretty active down here, I must say... going after other cops, that is. But they have a good gang investigation unit which does do warrants and follow ups.

 

[Ftttu]

Our county's DA inspectors are peace officers. Why they need full peace officer status to drink coffee at the county cafeteria all morning, give all their subpoenae to other agencies to serve and kick back all the followup to the agencies, no one knows. Oh, and they get paid equivalent to our top-step detective sergeants and none of them have made a felony arrest in years.

Don't talk bad about them. They send me an e-mail when I have court.

 

[lens]

In MA, the Mass State Police assigns active Troopers to each DA's office to work for the DA in investigations.

I don't have any idea how this all came about or when, just that this is the way MA does it's business.

 

[txleapd]

At least 1 Texas DA's Office used to commission prosecutors who had gone through the police academy as investigators so that they could carry on the badge. However, that was several administrations ago so I don't know if they do that anymore.

Texas law now allows prosecutors to carry everywhere cops can, expect jails and prisons, or areas prohibited by federal law.


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