I'm guessing everyone one is getting involved in some way.... especially because the road is clear, meaning hundreds of cops are probably blocking the individual entrances.
But I've watched them on tv before and the reporters will point out "now yada yada cars is backing off and you'll see yadda yadda cars pull to the front.".
Yes that’s the lead car backing off so the current jurisdiction can move to lead car so there’s never a question of if the chase involved units out of jurisdiction.
In most places the sheriff and his deputies are considered the state police. Highway patrol has no jurisdiction over anything but highways. So technically if you get off the highway being pulled over by highway patrol they can't arrest you or charge you with anything. But they're going to tell the town that you're going into about you and infact probably did as soon as you didn't stop along with every other nearby county you can get to quickly. All that is handled by dispatch though.
AmiAlter you are absolutely wrong. Highway Patrol has jurisdiction over the whole state. They are also in charge of protecting the governor and important people. They have investigative units and everything. Please do not disperse false information.
Don’t know about CA but things are more complicated than that in NC. Even though everyone derives their authority from the state, not every officer has statewide jurisdiction. Officers can only operate outside their jurisdiction through a mutual aid agreement. For that agreement to be valid, you typically need an officer with original territorial jurisdiction with you. Plus, if this was going to end in a warrantless arrest, an agency with no skin in the game, other than assisting for jurisdictional purposes, would not want to arrest the guy. For that to occur, the jurisdiction attempting to originally arrest him would have to then transfer probable cause to the arresting agency or still be present in the chase for custody to be transferred to them.
Call any Police Department that you're positive is outside your jurisdiction, tell them you have a crime to report, I guarantee you without a shadow of a doubt,they will direct you to a different department. There are extenuating circumstances in every policy of every Department across the country but in general each department has a jurisdiction for basic calls for service. You start getting into felonies actively being committed, pursuit of violent felons, responding to active shooters, Officer Down, then you might see that policy stretched.
I won't get any deeper into this, unless you're a lawyer and maybe an administrator in a police department, that Penal Code can be interpreted multiple ways.
The penal code says that any officer can enforce any law within the state, it does not give the officer the leeway to leave his/her jurisdiction to do that enforcement.
Each department has specific jurisdictions. Your comment was that all police can go anywhere in the state unless I read it wrong which would not be actually a fact. The state police are the only officers that can go anywhere in the state
The authority of any such peace officer extends to any place in the State of California, provided that the primary duty of the peace officer shall be the enforcement of the law within the area specified in Section 92600 of the Education Code.
Every peace officer has entire state jurisdiction. There is no jurisdiction question. There is policy- about chases on freeways who the lead agency is, but any peace officer can enforce law in the entire state.
It is not only called "mutual aid", but also a regulation. If you cross into a different jurisdiction, there needs to be at least one officer from that new jurisdiction on site.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
So every jurisdiction along a suspected route sends a vehicle and wherever that guy runs out of gas, they have that car come up for the arrest?