The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 27
STATE ATTORNEYS; PUBLIC DEFENDERS; RELATED OFFICES

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F.S. 27.251

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.

History.—ss. 1, 4, ch. 78-227; s. 130, ch. 95-147; s. 6, ch. 95-196; s. 1, ch. 2010-119.

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Amendments to 27.251

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 27.251

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 27.251.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

C. KELLY, v. S. GILL,, 544 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

. . . Florida Statutes (1985) states that an investigator “appointed” pursuant to the provisions of section 27.251 . . . and each special investigator appointed by the state attorney pursuant to the provisions of section 27.251 . . . section, investigators employed by a state attorney or appointed pursuant to the provisions of section 27.251 . . . Section 27.251 merely authorizes the state attorney of each judicial circuit to employ any municipal . . .

STATE v. J. HILLS, E. R. J. L., 428 So. 2d 715 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . the case sub judice, the officers executing the warrant clearly acted under the authority of Sections 27.251 . . .

STATE OF FLORIDA v. QUESADA,, 3 Fla. Supp. 2d 28 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1982)

. . . Stat. 27.251. . . . Section 27.251 (Supp. 1978) authorizes the appointment of municipal police officers for some purposes . . . Stat. 27.251 and 27.255. This Court believes that they cannot. . . .

VINALES, v. STATE ALVAREZ, v. STATE DE CASTRO, v. STATE, 374 So. 2d 570 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)

. . . In the present instance, the legislature, by the enactment of Section 27.251, Florida Statutes (Supp.1978 . . .