Company police
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Company Police are police officers who work for a private company rather than a government agency.
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These exist in most states in the United States. If they have attended the basic law enforcement officer's training academy in the state in which they work, they may be granted arrest or detention authority as long as it does not violate state law. Their jurisdiction is sometimes limited to the the property which they have been hired to protect, however most Company Police officers work in a part-time capacity to suplement the salaries they earn as full-time city police officers, thereby granting them city-wide jurisdiction if the property they are employed on is located within their respective city. In the majority of the states in the U.S., actively-employed state-certified peace officers, regardless of the capacity in which they are employed (private, public, company, security, campus, etc.), have the ability and duty to pursue and apprehend someone suspected of committing a felony outside of their normal jurisdiction.
