Editing Security police (section)

====By states====
Some major cities such as [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Los Angeles]], [[San Francisco]] and [[Boston]] have a security police service separate from their city police. These may be employees of a public agency or private contractors.

=====California=====
In California, peace officer powers are granted by the [[California Penal Code]] under a number of different code sections.  Cities, counties and special districts are authorized to form their own law enforcement agencies.  Peace officer training is regulated by a state agency, [[Police officer certification and licensure in the United States|Peace Officer Standards and Training]] or ''POST''.  This training can consist of as little as a 40-hour PC 832 course (for [[park ranger]]s, probation officers or fire investigators who might make an arrest in the course of their duties), or as much as a 700-hour POST Basic Academy (for entry level peace officers).

[[Security guards]] (including off duty peace officers) may only carry firearms in private employment if licensed by the state licensing authority, the [[Bureau of Security and Investigative Services]].  Persons regularly employed by public agencies as security guards, however, may be exempt from BSIS regulation, if they have completed POST-certified training in accordance with PC 832 or other penal code sections.  However, security guards employed by a private employer are still regulated by BSIS even though the client may be a public agency.

======Orange County======
[[Orange County Sheriff's Department (California)|Orange County Sheriff's Department]] '''special officers''' (SSOs) are duly-appointed California "public officers," defined by [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&sectionNum=836.5 ''California Penal Code (PC) 836.5''], which grants public officers the authority to "...arrest a person without a warrant whenever the officer or employee has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor in the presence of the officer or employee that is a violation of a statute or ordinance that the officer or employee has the duty to enforce." The statute additionally grants them powers to write summons and tickets.

SSOs are designated public officers by ''[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&sectionNum=831.4. California PC section 831.4. (a) (1)]''. This statute additionally authorizes them to carry firearms in the course of their duties. SSOs provide citation enforcement and general security and law enforcement services for the department in connection with the county [[Orange County Transportation Authority|bus system]], [[John Wayne Airport|airport]], the operations of the local courts and the custody of local prisoners.

SSOs attend a 16-week training academy at the Orange County Sheriff's Regional Training Academy that instructs new officers on laws of arrest, firearms training, arrest and control techniques, physical fitness, field and patrol tactics, first responder medical training, and corrections-custody training.

From 2016 to 2020, their right to carry concealed off-duty under their employment status was stripped. However, in December 2020, a agreement was brokered between the OCSD sheriff and the SSOs' union; SSOs would be provided identification cards identical to "sworn OCSD deputy sheriffs" which would identify them as either "law enforcement" or as "honorably retired law enforcement," as appropriate, and would identify them as personnel with "statutory arrest authority." While this would not confer upon SSOs California peace officer status, nor would it permit them to carry concealed off-duty under the color of California law, it would technically permit them to carry concealed off-duty under federal law ([[LEOSA]]), as their new identification cards meets the requirement to carry under the auspices of LESOA.<ref>https://www.ocea.org/assets/files/attachments/ocea-ocsd-side-letter.pdf</ref>

======Los Angeles======
In the [[Los Angeles]] metropolitan area, there are numerous examples of security police with different levels of authority and responsibility.

* [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department]] - employs '''Security assistants''' (security officer I) and '''Security officers''' (security officer II) who assist deputy sheriffs in the protection of various county government facilities. The LASD absorbed the [[Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety]] on June 30, 2010.
** Security assistants are assigned to the Transit Services Bureau serve as fare inspectors.  Security assistants and security officers assigned to the Court Services Division provide weapons screening and general security of the county's superior and municipal courts.  Security officers assigned to the Community College Division provide campus security to the county's community colleges.  Additionally, security officers may also be assigned to provide security at other county facilities.
** Sheriff's security officers in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, such as peace officer ("POST") training, have limited peace officer powers while on duty and are outside the authority of the state [[security guard]] licensing agency, the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) with respect to their work for the county.
* [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] -  transit security officers are uniformed, 836.5 (a) PC public officers, who serve the MTA (Metro) by providing security for critical transportation infrastructure and internal revenue protection.  Transit security officers undergo a selection process that is similar to that for police (including an identical background investigation, as well as a psychological review and physical agility test), as well as an 800-hour internal training program and POST-certified arrest and firearms course.

=====New Orleans=====
The [[New Orleans Police Department|City of New Orleans Department of Police]] in accordance with New Orleans Home Rule Charter section 4-502 (2) (a) (b) and New Orleans Municipal Code 17-271 MCS 90–86, deputizes '''armed security officers, private investigators, college campus police''', city, state, and federal agencies, within the city limits, with limited police powers as New Orleans Police special officers. 

New Orleans Municipal Code 17-271 MCS 30-1122 states that it shall be unlawful for any person to act as an armed guard unless they are a peace officer. Louisiana R.S. 40:1379.1 (b) states that the special officer, when performing those tasks requiring a special officer's commission, shall have the same powers and duties as a peace officer. Special officers may make arrests for felony or misdemeanor offenses on the property or area they are to protect, patrol, or in relation to their direct assignment. The special officer, when making an arrest, may pat down the arrested subject for weapons. Special officers are to turn over arrested subjects and pertaining evidence to a New Orleans Police officer. Special officers are to honor all subpoenas on arrest made and appear in court to testify. Special officers, when not on a particular assignment, are regarded as private citizens and have no police powers. However, special officers still may make arrests for a felony, whether in or out of their presence, while not on a particular assignment, under Louisiana Law CCRP art.214 arrest by private person; when lawful.