2006 Massachusetts Code - Chapter 127 — Section 151H. Administrator of interstate compact for supervision of parolees andprobationers; powers and duties.

Section 151H. The officer designated by the governor pursuant to paragraph (5) of section one hundred and fifty-one A shall be the administrator of the interstate compact for the supervision of parolees and probationers. He shall have power and authority to deputize any person regularly employed as a parole or probation officer by another state to act as an officer and agent of this commonwealth in effecting the return of any person who has violated the terms and conditions of parole or probation as granted by this commonwealth. In any matter relating to the return of such a person, any agent so deputized shall have all the powers of a police officer of this commonwealth. Any deputization pursuant to this section shall be in writing, and any person authorized to act as an agent of this commonwealth pursuant hereto shall carry formal evidence of his deputization and shall produce the same upon demand.