Opinion
April 29, 1975
Appeal from the Village Court of the Village of Belle Terre, JOHN M. LEACH, J.
Frederic Block for appellant.
Henry F. O'Brien, District Attorney (Kevin J. Crowley of counsel), for respondent.
MEMORANDUM. Judgment of conviction affirmed.
An investigator employed in a District Attorney's office is a police officer (CPL 1.20, subd 34, par [g]), and this status conferred on him authority to issue a simplified traffic information accusing a person of committing a traffic infraction (CPL 100.10, subd 2, par [a]). Since a police officer may make an arrest on a 24-hour basis for any offense which he has reasonable cause to believe a person has committed in his presence (CPL 140.10, subd 1; Matter of Washington v New York City Housing Auth., 31 A.D.2d 700, affd 24 N.Y.2d 912), it was irrelevant that the officer at the time was engaged in outside employment as a village constable.
Concur: HOGAN, P.J., PITTONI and FARLEY, JJ.