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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 479
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(VIII) INVESTIGATE ANY DEATH OF AN INMATE SUSPECTED TO BE A
HOMICIDE WITHIN OR OUTSIDE:
1. A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AS PROVIDED IN § 9-602.1 OF
THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ARTICLE; OR AND
2. A FACILITY OPERATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUVENILE SERVICES AS PROVIDED IN ARTICLE 83C, § 2-118.2 OF THE CODE; AND
[(viii)] (IX) discharge the duties and responsibilities of the
Department with the dignity and in a manner that will inspire public confidence and
respect.
2-412.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) "Emergency" means a sudden or unexpected happening or an
unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action to protect
health, safety, welfare, or property from actual or threatened harm or from an
unlawful act.
(3) "Municipal corporation" includes Baltimore City.
(b) (1) Police employees have throughout the State the same powers,
privileges, immunities, and defenses as sheriffs, constables, police officers, and other
peace officers possessed at common law and may now or in the future exercise within
their respective jurisdictions.
(2) A police employee may execute an arrest warrant in any part of the
State without further endorsement.
(c) Police employees may not act within the limits of a municipal corporation
that maintains a police force except:
(1) when in pursuit of a criminal or suspect;
(2) when in search of a criminal or suspect wanted for a crime committed
outside of the limits of the municipal corporation or when interviewing or seeking to
interview a witness or supposed witness to the crime;
(3) when a crime is committed in the presence of the police employee,
and the arrested party must be immediately transferred to the custody of the local
law enforcement agency;
(4) when requested to act by the chief executive officer or chief police
officer of the municipal corporation;
(5) when ordered by the Governor to act within the municipal
corporation;
(6) when enforcing the motor vehicle laws of the State, except in
Baltimore City;
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