Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 502
       
       
       
       By Senator Aronberg
       
       
       
       
       27-00449-10                                            2010502__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to special organized crime
    3         investigators; amending s. 27.251, F.S.; specifying
    4         matters that may be investigated by special organized
    5         crime investigators; providing an effective date.
    6  
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    8  
    9         Section 1. Section 27.251, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   10  read:
   11         27.251 Special organized crime investigators.—The state
   12  attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any
   13  municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy on a
   14  full-time basis as an investigator for the state attorney’s
   15  office with full powers of arrest throughout the judicial
   16  circuit provided such investigator serves on a special task
   17  force to investigate matters involving organized crime,
   18  including gang violence, or other criminal activity the
   19  detection of which might benefit from an interagency task force
   20  and, provided further, that the salary of such municipal or
   21  county police officer or sheriff’s deputy shall be paid by the
   22  city, county, or sheriff by which the investigator is
   23  principally employed, and with the consent of the county,
   24  sheriff, or municipality. The arrest powers granted in this
   25  section may herein shall be exercised only in the furtherance of
   26  the conduct of the business of the special task force to which
   27  such municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy is
   28  assigned by the said state attorney.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.