Warrant Service and Felony Notification Procedures

(1) Arrest and Search Warrant Procedures. (a) Any special state police officer seeking a search or arrest warrant from a court of competent jurisdiction to be served at a location not within the statutory jurisdictional boundaries of the employing agency, shall notify the Department's Troop Commander, or his or her designee, in the County where the warrant will be served, prior to service of the warrant. (b) A special state police officer serving an arrest or search warrant, at a location not within the statutory jurisdictional boundaries of the employing agency, shall be accompanied by a sworn member of the Department, or if authorized by the Troop Commander, or his or her designee, a sworn member of a local police department of competent jurisdiction. In no case shall an arrest or search warrant be served by a special state police officer of any agency, at a location not within the agency's jurisdictional boundaries, without a sworn member of the Department or a sworn member of a local police department present at time and place of service, excepting instances of articulable exigent circumstances. (c) A qualified officer of each agency noted in M.G.L. c. 22C, §§ 56 through 68, shall report the following information monthly to the Department for each warrant issued. Type of warrant, warrant number, reason for issuance, authorizing Court, names of arrestees, locations of buildings, dwellings or vehicles searched and identity of the sworn member of the Department or local police department present at time of warrant service. Only those search and/or arrest warrants which agencies have applied for at courts of competent jurisdiction by submission of affidavits or sworn statements are required to be reported in this manner. (2) Felony Notification Procedures. A qualified officer of each agency noted in M.G.L. c. 22C, §§ 56 through 68, shall submit, on a form approved by the Colonel, a monthly report to the Department indicating all crimes, classified as felonies, which have occurred within the agency's jurisdiction during the previous month.