Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 33: November 1966 Your authority, or jurisdiction, as a law enforce ment officer is subject to two important limitations. One is territorial and the other is subject matter. Where you may arrest and what crimes you may ar rest for depend upon whether you are a local or a state law enforcement officer. For example, if you are a state highway patrolman you may arrest for any crime committed on the highways or committed in your presence, for motor vehicle violations, and for highway robbery, bank robbery, murder or other crimes of violence, anywhere in the state. However, if you are a municipal police officer, you may arrest for violations of federal, state, and municipal law only within your city's territorial limits, except where a local law extends your territorial jurisdiction - for ex ample, to one-half mile beyond the city limits or to all city-owned property outside city limits. It would be advisable, then, to familiarize yourself with the relevant state and local laws pertaining not only toyour particular territorial jurisdiction but to those designated offenses for which you are authorized to arrest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.