Sec. 29-179g. Appointment of police or federal Housing and Urban Development Agency personnel for task force. Compensation. Indemnification. Termination.
Sec. 29-179g. Appointment of police or federal Housing and Urban Development Agency personnel for task force. Compensation. Indemnification. Termination. (a) The Commissioner of Public Safety may from time to time select a number of
police personnel from any municipality of the state or personnel from the Housing and
Urban Development Agency as he deems necessary to act temporarily as special state
policemen to carry out the duties of the state-wide cooperative crime control task force.
Such personnel shall be appointed from a list of names of persons recommended to the
state-wide cooperative crime control task force policy board by the chiefs of police of the
municipalities or the executive authority of the federal Housing and Urban Development
Agency and approved by said board.
(b) Each municipality and the federal Housing and Urban Development Agency
shall be responsible for the full payment of the compensation of such of their personnel
temporarily assigned to the state-wide cooperative crime control task force and such
salary shall be payable to such assigned personnel while on duty with said task force.
(c) For purposes of indemnification of such personnel and their municipalities or
the federal Housing and Urban Development Agency against any losses, damages or
liabilities arising out of the service and activities of the task force, personnel while
assigned to, and performing the duties of, the task force shall be deemed to be acting
as employees of the state.
(d) Each municipality participating in the program shall assign at least two police
officers to the task force for a period of not less than one year.
(e) Any appointments made pursuant to this section shall terminate by order of said
commissioner or upon dissolution of the state-wide cooperative crime control task force,
whichever occurs sooner.
(P.A. 93-348, S. 2, 8; P.A. 95-330, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 93-348 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-330 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that the commissioner may
select personnel from the Housing and Urban Development Agency to act temporarily as special state policemen and that
such personnel shall be appointed from a list of names recommended by the executive authority of such agency, amended
Subsecs. (b) and (c) to provide for compensation and indemnification of personnel from the federal Housing and Urban
Development Agency, and added Subsec. (e) providing that the termination of appointments made under this section shall
be upon the sooner of either an order of the commissioner or the dissolution of the state-wide cooperative crime control
task force.