Most officers can cite you exterior of their turfs

Q. I do know the California Highway Patrol is answerable for visitors enforcement and handing out tickets on freeways, metropolis police care for this of their cities, and sheriff’s deputies deal with unincorporated areas and the cities that contract with them. Can these companies give out tickets in locations exterior of their accountability?

– Bert Steinberg, Seal Beach

A. Largely sure.

“Most peace officers that we consider … have the authority to train peace-officer powers all through the state of California,” stated Meagan Poulos, a spokeswoman for the state’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, which units coaching requirements for cops and might decertify them.

There are a some officers whose authority solely pertains to their jurisdictions – at the very least relating to typical tickets.

“These officers, nevertheless, aren’t the officers we sometimes consider, they’re investigators for state companies, neighborhood school police, faculty district police, railroad officers, simply to call just a few,” she stated. “In different phrases, they can’t merely write a visitors ticket when out of their jurisdiction.”