SB0054 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB0054

Introduced 1/16/2013, by Sen. William R. Haine

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

725 ILCS 210/7.06

from Ch. 14, par. 207.06

Amends the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act. Provides that nothing in the provision requiring an investigator or other employee of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor who exercises powers of a peace officer to have a distinct badge prohibits the Director of the Office from issuing a shield or other distinctive identification to an employee not exercising the powers of a peace officer if the Director determines that a shield or distinctive identification is needed by the employee to carry out his or her responsibilities. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act is amended by changing Section 7.06 as follows:

(725 ILCS 210/7.06) (from Ch. 14, par. 207.06)

Sec. 7.06. (a) The Director may contract for such investigators to provide investigative services in criminal cases and tax objection cases for staff counsel and county state's attorneys. Investigators may be authorized by the board to carry tear gas gun projectors or bombs, pistols, revolvers, stun guns, tasers or other firearms.

Subject to the qualifications set forth below, investigators shall be peace officers and shall have all the powers possessed by policemen in cities and by sheriffs; provided, that investigators shall exercise such powers anywhere in the State only after contact and in cooperation with the appropriate local law enforcement agencies.

No investigator shall have peace officer status or exercise police powers unless he or she successfully completes the basic police training course mandated and approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or such board waives the training requirement by reason of the investigator's prior law enforcement experience or training or both.

The board shall not waive the training requirement unless the investigator has had a minimum of 5 years experience as a sworn officer of a local, state or federal law enforcement agency, 2 of which shall have been in an investigatory capacity.

(b) The Director must authorize to each investigator employed under this Section and to any other employee of the Office exercising the powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by the Office and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (b), no No other badge shall be authorized by the Office. Nothing in this subsection (b) prohibits the Director from issuing a shield or other distinctive identification to an employee not exercising the powers of a peace officer if the Director determines that a shield or distinctive identification is needed by the employee to carry out his or her responsibilities.

(Source: P.A. 96-900, eff. 5-28-10; 97-1012, eff. 8-17-12.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.