618 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 303

23. The employees of the Department shall co-operate
and exchange information with any other Department or
authority of the State, or with police forces, both within
and without the State, and with Federal police forces, to-
ward the end of achieving greater success in preventing
and detecting crimes and apprehending criminals. The
Superintendent may on the request of the chief executive
officer or the chief police officer of any local government
unit in the State assist such officer in the investigation of
the circumstances of any crime, and in the identification,
apprehension, and conviction of the perpetrator or perpe-
trators thereof, and for this purpose may detail such em-
ployee or employees of the Department, for such length of
time as the Superintendent may deem fit. The Superin-
tendent shall, when so authorized by the Governor, have
the power to negotiate with appropriate officials of other
states in the preparation of interstate compacts for police
protection as authorized by the Act of June 6, 1934, (48
Stat, 909 e. 406; U. S. Code, title 18, section 420), or other
Acts of Congress, and such compacts as negotiated shall be
submitted to the Governor and Legislature for approval.

24. The police employees of the Department shall not
act within the limits of any incorporated municipality
which maintains a police force except (1) when in pursuit
of an offender or suspected offender; or (2) when in search
of an offender or suspected offender wanted for a crime
committed outside of the limits of the municipality, or when
interviewing or seeking to interview a witness or a sup-
posed witness to such a crime; or (3) when requested to
act by the chief executive officer of the municipality in
question or its chief police officer, as provided under Sec-
tion 23; or (4) when ordered by the Governor to act within
the municipality in question.

25. Any person having charge of a jail or other place of
detention shall, provided sufficient facilities are available,
receive any prisoner arrested by a police employee of the
Department and shall detain him in custody until otherwise
ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by the
Superintendent or by the police employee from whom the
prisoner was received; and any such person who shall re-
fuse so to receive any prisoner, or who, having received
him, shall release him otherwise than as above provided,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $50. 00,
or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than
thirty days, or by both, in the discretion of the court. Pris-