(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection 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; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)

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; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.