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pursuant to this Article. No employee of the Department shall be per-
mitted to receive or collect any witness fees arising out of criminal prose-
cutions in any State court.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 20.

20. The Superintendent shall create and maintain a Bureau of Crimi-
nal Identification and Statistics, and shall assign a competent police em-
ployee of rank designated by him, and any number of assistants as he may
deem necessary to successfully operate said bureau. Such bureau shall
collect and maintain such data and perform such duties as the Superin-
tendent may direct. The Superintendent shall co-operate with the Divi-
sion of Investigation of United States Department of Justice at Washing-
ton, D. C., with bureaus of identification maintained by any municipality
within or without the State of Maryland, and with bureaus of identifica-
tion maintained by other States.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 21.

21. It shall be the duty of police employees of the Department to pre-
vent and detect crime, to apprehend criminals, to enforce the criminal laws
and motor vehicle laws of the State, and to perform such other related
duties as may be imposed upon them by the Legislature, and to this end,
police employees of the Department shall be peace officers, and shall have
in any and all parts of the State, the same powers with respect to criminal
matters and the enforcement of the law relating thereto, as sheriffs, con-
stables, police officers and peace officers have in their respective jurisdiction,
and shall have all the immunities and matters of defense now available or
such as hereafter may be made available to sheriffs, constables, police
officers and peace officers, in any suit brought against them in consequence
of acts done in the course of their employment. Any warrant of arrest
issued by any magistrate of the State, at the instance of any police em-
ployee, may be executed by any police employee of the Department in any
part of the State according to the tenor thereof without endorsement. All
police employees shall have all the powers, rights and duties which were or
are granted unto the motor cycle deputies of the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles, as set forth in Article 56, Sections 171 to 265, inclusive, Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924 Edition, and as set forth in
Article 56, Section 171 to 209-A, Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, 1929 Supplement, as said Article 56 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, 1929 Supplement, has been amended by all subsequent
legislation, and shall have all rights and duties as are granted, or may be
granted, unto motor cycle deputies of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
by any Act or Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1935; pro-
vided, however, that Sections 21, 22 and 24, hereof, except to enforce the
Motor Vehicle Laws of this State shall not apply to Charles, Calvert,
Howard and Montgomery Counties.