Running Code 3 In Cali

[KnightRider3702]

This is the "Dirty South" They don't play down here. lol

[richcecil]

I run most of my traffic in one state using an unmarked cruiser that has plates issued by another state.

And it's great because people who recognize that it's a police unit will still fly past me thinking that I can't stop them.

[SIZE=5]Grinch!!!!!!![/SIZE]

[Sleuth]

I worked as a Federal Officer in Mass, Ca, and AZ. Our cars based in CA were equiped to comply with CA laws. There is no legal requirement, but we did it to cut down on confusion. In the other states, cars were equiped to meet the states regs, for the same reason. Our Boston office had plates for all of the New England states, but only one red light per car.

If you failed to yield to me (and were not the suspect), I would find a safe place and pass you. If you intentionally blocked me, then you got to be a Federal Prisoner for 18 USC 111, Impeading a Federal Officer in the performance of his duties.

No Federal agency needs an MOU with a State or local Government to enforce Federal laws. Some agencies (Park Service, BLM) have them to enforce state laws, or more commonly, to let loacl officers enforce state laws on Federal lands.
And I do know a BLM officer who arrested a speeder in CA. It happened that the speeder past the marked BLM unit on a section of highway passing through BLM land. So he got a Federal speeding ticket, and had to go to Federal court.

Basicaly, as Fed's, we could go & do where/whatever we wanted. But we wanted good relations with the local/county/state officers, so we tried to cooperate rather than confront. Over the years, a few locals/state officers did get arrested when they wanted to push the issue of state laws on Federal agents. That's not to say that a few Federal agents did not get in trouble for trying to ride roughshod over the locals.

(If you are a local officer, and have a real problem with a Fed, just get his/her name and agency, and have your boss call his/her boss. It WILL be taken care of. Some guys have lost jobs over this, because they were jerks!)

[JR_23]

I have yet to work with the Feds (1 year)...is this normal of most Coppers? The only time I ever hear from them is when they're doing something in the area...I just stay away from that area and figure if they need a hand, they'll call.

[Ranger__101]

You'll probibally have better luck meeting any FLEO at a training event for conference than you will working on the street.

[Group9]

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You'll probibally have better luck meeting any FLEO at a training event for conference than you will working on the street.

Generally, the only local officers we interact with are the local narcotics units, or drug interdiction patrol officers, in my agency. The only exception is if we request patrol officers to do some kind of pre-text stop on someone to ID them where we don't want them to know they are under investigation.

Generally, we notify the local agencies before a planned enforcement action if there is time, mainly just to avoid any blue on blue confrontations, and out of professional courtesy. But, a large part of the time, it is a joint operation, anyway.

A large part of our agency is made up of state and locals who are loaned to and assigned to us by their parent agenices, and deputized as federal agents. For example, in the office I am in now, there are eight full time federal agents and fourteen deputized state and local officers. The period of assignments is supposed to be for at least a year, but we have had some that have been with us as long as fifteen years. Five to seven years is about the average before they are rotated or promoted out.