Legal Question in Traffic Law in California

local law enforcement jurisdiction

can a city police officer from one city pull over a car in a different city?


Asked on 8/10/08, 7:41 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Sherman Ellison Law Offices of Sherman M. Ellison

Re: local law enforcement jurisdiction

The simple answer is generally yes under certain circumstances.

However, the violation must have occurred in the police officer's original city and continued into the next city; and/or, the next city had given authorization to the original city for the original city's police officer to do law enforcement in the next city.

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Answered on 8/17/08, 3:23 pm


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