Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 8302 – Powers and duties of State Police; local police officers assisting …
(a) State Police shall have police powers similar to those of constables and other police officers, and shall be conservators of the peace throughout the State, and they shall suppress all acts of violence, and enforce all laws relating to the safety of persons and property. The State Police shall be the primary law-enforcement agency within the State. The State Police shall have exclusive jurisdiction, excluding the incorporated limits of any municipality maintaining an established police department, for police investigations of the following:
(1) Homicide;
(2) Suicide;
(3) All other deaths requiring medical examiner’s investigation;
(4) Kidnapping;
(5) Rape and unlawful sexual intercourse; and
(6) All attempts thereof.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 11 Sec. 8302
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) When police officers who are certified by the Delaware Council on Police Training are acting outside their respective jurisdiction as conservators of the peace in response to a request for assistance from the State Police, those officers shall be considered to be acting as State Police Officers and shall have the powers of arrest thereof.
(c) State Police shall have all powers and jurisdiction to enforce all county noise ordinances duly enacted in the unincorporated areas of Kent County and Sussex County.
34 Del. Laws, c. 84, § ?4; Code 1935, § ?5747; 45 Del. Laws, c. 276; 11 Del. C. 1953, § ?8302; 58 Del. Laws, c. 204; 60 Del. Laws, c. 103, § ?1; 61 Del. Laws, c. 7, § ?1; 66 Del. Laws, c. 269, § ?10; 72 Del. Laws, c. 131, § ?1; 74 Del. Laws, c. 45, § ?1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 111, § ?1;