New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police - Role of The Auxiliary Police Officer

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

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