How is that an overstepping of power?marksiwel wrote:I cant see that being an overstepping of power, not at all.gigag04 wrote:Mr. Roth - I was finding the same in looking through the PC, GC, and CCP. That's as far as I could look with the time I had.
I know my friends that work A&M's UPD have jurisdiction in any county that Texas A&M holds property...which is all but like 3 counties in the state I believe. That makes them like state police of sorts...almost.
Look at Univ. of Texas Police. They have campuses all over the state and all the departments have their own Chiefs but are under a central director in Austin. What if they sent an Officer from El Paso to help out for a month in Tyler? Is that not his jurisdiction? Whats happens if they send an Inspector from Austin to investigate a crime on UT property that happened in BFE?
Have you been to the Texas Medical Center in Houston? It isn't a campus but UTPD is out and about in and around there and they do traffic on occasion. UT Houston has property in surrounding counties (radiation centers etc) that the PD checks. Same as Metro PD having jurisdiction in the surrounding counties because the bus lines run there.