Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-281
Current with legislation from 2024 effective through June 5, 2024.
Active members of any legally organized police force in a town, city or borough shall have the same authority to execute criminal process in their respective towns, cities or boroughs as constables have in their respective towns, and, in addition, any such member having a warrant of arrest arising out of an offense allegedly committed in the town, city or borough in which such police force is located may execute such warrant in any part of the state.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-281
(1949 Rev., S. 663; 1967, P.A. 20, S. 1.)
Police officers appointed by our municipalities are officers as fully as the sheriff of the county, charged with the execution of a trust. 67 C. 310; 70 C. 121. Cited. 181 C. 562; 210 C. 333; 227 Conn. 363.