                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT, ETC., AUTHORIZED; POWERS, AUTHORITY AND IMMUNITIES GENERALLY (§
15.2-1731)

A. Localities, for the further preservation of the public peace, safety, and
good order of the community, may establish, equip, and maintain auxiliary police
forces that have all the powers and authority and all the immunities of
full-time law-enforcement officers, if all such forces have met the training
requirements established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services under
&#xA7; 9.1-102.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an auxiliary officer
shall be exempted from any initial training requirement established under &#xA7;
9.1-102 until a date one year subsequent to the approval by the Criminal Justice
Services Board of compulsory minimum training standards for auxiliary police
officers, except that (i) any such officer shall not be permitted to carry or
use a firearm while serving as an auxiliary police officer unless such officer
has met the firearms training requirements established in accordance with
in-service training standards for law-enforcement officers as prescribed by the
Criminal Justice Services Board, and (ii) any such officer shall have one year
following the approval by the Board to comply with the compulsory minimum
training standards.

C. Auxiliary police forces established pursuant to this section, who have met
the training requirements of &#xA7; 9.1-102, may be called into service by the
chief law-enforcement officer as appropriate to provide transportation for such
person subject to an emergency custody order pursuant to &#xA7; 37.2-808 or to
provide transportation for a person in the temporary detention process pursuant
to &#xA7; 37.2-810.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 157, § 15.1-159.2; 1987, c. 421; 1988, c. 864; 1997, c. 587;
2012, c. 827; 2022, c. 730.