Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 160

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 150

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ARREST AND COMMITMENT; FRESH PURSUIT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code by relettering the existing (f) and (g) as (g) and (h) and adding as a new § 1911(f) the following:

“ (f) When police officers who are certified by the Delaware Council on Police Training are dispatched by a Public Safety Answering Point outside of their respective jurisdiction as conservators of the peace, those officers shall be considered to be acting as officers of the dispatching agency and have the powers of arrest thereof.”.

Approved July 18, 2007