Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 49, December 6, 2024
Section 149-5-4 - Designation of patrol area4.1. Patrol area of stop. The chief executive of every law-enforcement agency in the state shall establish one or more "patrol areas" as defined in section 2.12 of this rule. The boundaries shall be easily recognizable to the law-enforcement officer and the designation of the patrol area shall be identified by up to a three digit number that shall be entered by the officer on the Motor Vehicle Stop Form. The boundaries and designations of patrol areas shall be provided to all officers under the control of the agency and forwarded to the Governor's Committee on Crime Delinquency and Correction for utilization in preparing the report to the legislature required by West Virginia Code.4.2. Requirements for boundaries of patrol areas. The boundaries of the patrol areas shall be drawn to allow the determination of population demographics of the Patrol Area as a whole. Patrol areas may include whole or partial census tracts and whole census blocks. The maps provided to officers need not show this specific information, but only the boundaries of the patrol area using natural landmarks such as streets, streams, railroad tracks, or other boundaries as may be generally known to a community. Maps of patrol areas shall be forwarded to the Governor's committee for approval of conformance to this subsection.4.3. County level law-enforcement agencies in counties with a population of 20,000 or fewer may designate the entire county as one patrol area. Law-enforcement agencies in cities or towns with a population of 5,000 or fewer may designate the entire city or town as one patrol area. Law-enforcement agencies with statewide jurisdiction shall utilize patrol areas established by the county of the stop.