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Fla. Stat. § 27.251 (2025)
Special investigators.
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27.251 Special investigators.—The state attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy as an investigator for the state attorney’s office with full powers of arrest throughout the judicial circuit provided such investigator serves on a special task force to investigate matters involving criminal activity the detection of which might benefit from a special task force and provided further that the salary of such municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy shall be paid by the city, county, or sheriff by which the investigator is principally employed, and with the consent of the county, sheriff, or municipality. The arrest powers granted in this section may be exercised only in the furtherance of the conduct of the business of the special task force to which such municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy is assigned by the state attorney.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1979–1989 · leading case: Kelly v. Gill, 544 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989).
Kelly v. Gill, 544 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989). “255(3), Florida Statutes (1985) states that an investigator "appointed" pursuant to the provisions of section 27.251 ( i.e., sheriff's deputy on fulltime basis as an investigator), has the same rights afforded other law enforcement officers when in the performance of any of the…”
Vinales v. State, 394 So. 2d 993 (Fla. 1981). “In the present instance, the legislature, by the enactment of Section 27.251, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1978), has chosen specifically to authorize the appointment of municipal police officers for some purposes as investigators for the state attorney.”
State v. Hills, 428 So. 2d 715 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983). “Section 27.251, Florida Statutes (1981) provides: (1) The state attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any municipal or county police officer or sheriff's deputy on a full-time basis as an investigator for the state attorney's office with full powers of arrest…”
Vinales v. State, 374 So. 2d 570 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). “In the present instance, the legislature, by the enactment of Section 27.251, Florida Statutes (Supp.1978), has chosen specifically to authorize the appointment of municipal police officers for some purposes as investigators for the state attorney.”
State v. Quesada, 3 Fla. Supp. 2d 28 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1982). “Section 27.251 (Supp. 1978) authorizes the appointment of municipal police officers for some purposes as special investigators for the State Attorney, and provides for the posting of a bond and the taking of an oath of office, in order to investigate in another municipality.”
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