.060 Powers and duties of commissioner and officers.
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16.060 Powers and duties of commissioner and officers.
It shall be the duty of the commissioner and each officer of the department to detect and
prevent crime, apprehend criminals, maintain law and order throughout the state, to
collect, classify and maintain information useful for the detection of crime and the
identification, apprehension and conviction of criminals and to enforce the criminal, as
well as the motor vehicle and traffic laws of the Commonwealth. To this end the
commissioner and each officer of the department is individually vested with the powers
of a peace officer and shall have in all parts of the state the same powers with respect to
criminal matters and enforcement of the laws relating thereto as sheriffs, constables and
police officers in their respective jurisdictions, and shall possess all the immunities and
matters of defense now available or hereafter made available to sheriffs, constables and
police officers in any suit brought against them in consequence of acts done in the course
of their employment. Any warrant of arrest may be executed by the commissioner or any
officer of the department.
History: Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 151, sec. 1. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74,
Art. V, sec. 24(4). -- Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 6.