BILL NUMBER: SB 1762	CHAPTERED  07/03/00

	CHAPTER   61
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 3, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 30, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 22, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   MAY 18, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 2, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alpert
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Battin and Zettel)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2000

   An act to amend Section 830.1 of the Penal Code, relating to peace
officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1762, Alpert.  Deputy sheriffs:  San Diego County.
   Existing law defines specified powers, rights, duties, and
training requirements for peace officers, and provides that any
deputy sheriff, employed in that capacity by a county, is a peace
officer whose authority extends to any place in the state with regard
to offenses committed within his or her home jurisdiction, and any
offense committed in his or her presence where there is immediate
danger to person or property or the escape of the perpetrator, or
where there is probable cause to believe these situations exist.
Existing law also provides that a deputy sheriff of a county of the
first class who is assigned to perform duties relating to specified
custodial assignments is a peace officer whose authority extends to
any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the
duties of his or her employment and for the purpose of carrying out
the primary function of employment relating to his or her custodial
assignments, or when directed to perform other law enforcement duties
during a local state of emergency.
   This bill would provide that this latter provision is applicable
to deputy sheriffs employed by San Diego County.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 830.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   830.1.  (a) Any sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff, employed
in that capacity, of a county, any chief of police of a city or
chief, director, or chief executive officer of a consolidated
municipal public safety agency which performs police functions, any
police officer, employed in that capacity and appointed by the chief
of police or chief, director, or chief executive of a public safety
agency, of a city, any chief of police, or police officer of a
district (including police officers of the San Diego Unified Port
District Harbor Police) authorized by statute to maintain a police
department, any marshal or deputy marshal of a municipal court, any
port warden or special officer of the Harbor Department of the City
of Los Angeles, or any inspector or investigator employed in that
capacity in the office of a district attorney, is a peace officer.
The authority of these peace officers extends to any place in the
state, as follows:
   (1) As to any public offense committed or which there is probable
cause to believe has been committed within the political subdivision
which employs the peace officer.
   (2) Where the peace officer has the prior consent of the chief of
police or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a
consolidated municipal public safety agency, or person authorized by
him or her to give consent, if the place is within a city or of the
sheriff, or person authorized by him or her to give consent, if the
place is within a county.
   (3) As to any public offense committed or which there is probable
cause to believe has been committed in the peace officer's presence,
and with respect to which there is immediate danger to person or
property, or of the escape of the perpetrator of the offense.
   (b) Special agents and Attorney General investigators of the
Department of Justice are peace officers, and those assistant chiefs,
deputy chiefs, chiefs, deputy directors, and division directors
designated as peace officers by the Attorney General are peace
officers.  The authority of these peace officers extends to any place
in the state where a public offense has been committed or where
there is probable cause to believe one has been committed.
   (c) Any deputy sheriff of a county of the first class, and any
deputy sheriff of the County of San Diego, who is employed to perform
duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments
with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county
custodial facilities, including the custody, care, supervision,
security, movement, and transportation of inmates, is a peace officer
whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged
in the performance of the duties of his or her respective employment
and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of
employment relating to his or her custodial assignments, or when
performing other law enforcement duties directed by his or her
employing agency during a local  state-of-emergency.