2000 Minnesota Statutes

     626.77 Peace officers from adjoining states. 

    Subdivision 1.    Arrest authority.  A peace officer of 
 a state adjoining Minnesota has the same authority to arrest and 
 hold an individual in custody as has any peace officer of this 
 state if all of the following circumstances are present: 

    (1) the officer enters this state while on duty and 
 authorized by a request for assistance by a peace officer of 
 this state; 

    (2) while in this state, the officer acts under the 
 direction of the peace officer to whom the officer is rendering 
 assistance; 

    (3) while in this state, the officer acts in accordance 
 with the rules and regulations of the officer's own appointive 
 or elective authority; and 

    (4) upon effecting an arrest, the officer surrenders 
 custody of the arrested individual to a peace officer of this 
 state without unnecessary delay. 

    Subd. 2.    Tort liability; indemnification.  A peace 
 officer from an adjoining state who responds to a request for 
 assistance and who acts in accordance with subdivision 1 is 
 serving in the regular line of duty as fully as though the 
 service was within the officer's jurisdiction.  For the purposes 
 of section 3.736 and chapter 466, the officer is deemed to be an 
 employee of the elective or appointive agency of the peace 
 officer requesting assistance. 

    HIST: 1994 c 441 s 1