POWERS AND DUTIES OF POLICE OFFICERS


14 Pa. D. & C. 2d 271 (1958)

Powers and Duties of Police Officers Regarding Arrests

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

June 2, 1958.


VICTOR WRIGHT, Deputy Attorney General, and THOMAS D. McBRIDE, Attorney General, June 2, 1958.

It has come to the attention of the Department of Justice that members of the Pennsylvania State Police are of the belief that the Act of April 23, 1909, P. L. 141, 19 PS §§4, 5,1 authorizes police officers to incarcerate a person suspected of crime for a period of up to 48 hours,...

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