Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 1946 – Direction and authorization of activities
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(a) The principal law-enforcement officer on duty of a jurisdiction shall be responsible for directing the activities of all police coming into that officer’s jurisdiction pursuant to this subchapter.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 1946
- Jurisdiction: means a recognized geographic area such as a county, incorporated municipality or the legislatively defined area of responsibility of the Delaware River and Bay Authority or the Department of Safety and Homeland Security or the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and/or the University of Delaware and/or Delaware State University in which the governing body and its police have the authority, capacity, power and right to enforce laws. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 1942
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Police: includes all authorized law-enforcement personnel of a jurisdiction. See Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 1942
(b) The principal law-enforcement officer shall be empowered to authorize all police from a foreign jurisdiction to the same extent as if they were duly authorized law-enforcement officers of the jurisdiction.
11 Del. C. 1953, § ?1946; 57 Del. Laws, c. 433; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 36, § ?1;