Role of The Auxiliary Police Officer
Auxiliary Police officers can:
- Perform crowd control
- Perform traffic control and effect street closures at parades, accidents, fires, etc.
- Perform traffic control at broken traffic lights, accidents, etc.
- Make arrests when a crime (Misdemeanors,Felony) is committed in their presence or when directed by a Police Officer
- Give medical aid to anyone as long as they are trained to do so
- Carry and use a police baton in the performance of their duties (NYS Penal Law 265.20 b.)
- Carry and use handcuff restraints in the performance of their duties (NYC Administrative Code 10-147)
Auxiliary Police officers cannot:
- Make arrests for crimes not committed in their presence unless ordered to do so by a regular police officer or a police dispatcher. In 1991, the New York State Court of Appeals determined that Auxiliary Police officers are covered under the "fellow officer rule", and therefore may detain a person based on information from a dispatcher or police officer heard over a police radio or from a police officer in person, and therefore are considered as a law enforcement officer with reliable information when making a report themselves to other law officers.
- Respond to any 911 calls involving any type of weapons or other life endangering conditions.
- Carry a firearm
- Issue summonses
Read more about this topic: New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police
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