Cops and traffic stops in other towns

[ThirdgenTa]

I am a criminal justice major and I know that they can pull people over if they are following someone from their town into another. I also know that they can pull people over if they happen to be in another town and see something that they need to check or whatever. My question is this.. Can they take radar in the town next to them and pull people over? I know this one town that is really slow. Nobody ever speeds through there and there is only 3 cops on the whole department. So basically, all they do it traffic stops all day long. Only thing is that since nothing happens in their town, they come into the neighboring towns to pull people over. Not just on the boarder, but at least a half a mile into the neighboring town.
Lets say, if I got pulled over for doing something in the town they are not a cop in, could they come pull me over and give me a ticket?
So is what they are doing legal or illegal?

[username]

i know here im at now, thats BS. town cops have to go by jurisdiction, and its the same way in Md., near balt. where im from.state troopers are another matter.

[firecop]

As stated, not unless they are state police.

[ThirdgenTa]

how would you go about getting out of a ticket that was written in a different town. It is a county ticket written by a local police officer

[TC]

I know in Texas I can write a ticket anywhere in the state, I just have to file it in the jurisdiction in which I wrote it.

[FivePointSlow]

Perfectly legal in CA. I work in a sheriff's office, so I end up driving through other jurisdictions. I've written numerous tickets for things I see happen inside the city limits of wherever I am while driving to some part of my beat.


I don't sit and poach outside my jurisdiction though. When you're employed to serve citizens in an area, most cops will do just that. Doesn't make much sense to go look for things to enforce elsewhere. That and my Sgt would chew my ass.

So, Legal yes, common practice, no.

[Nexus6]

Originally posted by TC
I know in Texas I can write a ticket anywhere in the state, I just have to file it in the jurisdiction in which I wrote it. a couple of years back they passed a law in florida that allows them to do that as well