Tbta "police"

[Roger Dat]

Nothing but pure satisfaction when JoeyD schools someone :D

[Brendon]

I think he capitalized everything and the board removes it automatically.

I don't think so, or the agencies wouldn't be capitalized. It does make it difficult to read.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't TBTA mainly just work on the toll booths or do they do more?

[NYSSCOretired]

The original distinction between police and peace officers in New York State happened in 1972 when the Criminal Procedure Law replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure. Prior to that all titles received their authority to make arrests, effectuate arrest warrants, search warrants and bench warrants from the Code of Criminal Procedure which designated the various titles as peace officers, which included police officers, court officers, probation officers, parole officers, nyc deputy sheriffs, etc. There was intense lobbying that went on to create the distinction between police officers and non police peace officers. The original intention at the time not only wanted to create the distinction but disarm all the non police law enforcement personnel.

The 1980 changes added the training requirements for the non police peace officers and added a large number of titles found in various other NYS statutes to the ever growing list of peace officers.

As a court officer, I remember being in a courtroom shortly after the change went into effect. There were 3 defendants before the court who were wanted in another county for a robbery. The assistant DA had the arrest warrant from the other county. He requested that the judge revoke the bail that they were on so that they could be processed on the warrant. The judge refused to do so. He then turned to us and requested that we arrest the defendants on the arrest warrant. We informed him that we no longer had the authority to do so. He then recited the facts and circumstances of the incident for which the defendants were charged and indicted, thereby giving us probable cause to arrest the defendants. The judge upon realizing that the courtroom would be stripped of court officers to process the defendants had a change of heart and revoked the bail.

I don't know about any other agency but when I became a court officer, roughly 90% of the court officers were people who had been police officers before taking the court officers position. In fact one of the requirement for the exam was police officer status for 2 years and/or 2 years of college.