Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-274. Establishment by ordinance of town police commissions; adoption by ordinance of special act provisions when police commission established thereby. (a) Any town may, by ordinance, establish a board of police commissioners to be elected, in accordance with the provision…

Sec. 7-275. Meetings of commissioners. Vacancies. The board of police commissioners shall elect one of its number to be chairman and one member to be clerk and shall hold regular meetings and keep records of the same. Meetings shall be held upon the call of the chairman or of a m…

Sec. 7-276. Powers of commissioners. Such boards shall have all of the powers given by the general statutes to boards of police commissioners, shall have general management and supervision of the police department of such town and of the property and equipment used in connection …

Sec. 7-277. Town to bear expense. The expenses, salaries and all costs of maintenance and equipment for such police department shall be paid by such town in the same manner as other expenses of the town government. (1949 Rev., S. 660.)

Sec. 7-277a. Police assistance agreements and requests for aid. (a)(1) Any municipality, upon the approval of the chief executive officer and, where required by charter or ordinance, the governing body of such municipality, may enter into an agreement with any other municipality …

Sec. 7-277b. Reimbursement for body-worn or electronic defense weapon recording equipment, data storage devices or services and dashboard cameras with a remote recorder. (a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available resources, administer a grant program to provi…

Sec. 7-277c. Grants to municipalities for purchase of body-worn recording equipment, digital data storage devices or services and dashboard cameras with a remote recorder. (a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available resources, administer a grant program to pro…

Sec. 7-278. Hearing prior to dismissal of municipal police head. Just cause requirement. Appeal. No active head of any police department of any town, city or borough shall be dismissed unless there is a showing of just cause by the authority having the power of dismissal and such…

Sec. 7-279. Subpoena to appear before municipal police commissioners. The chief executive officer of any municipality, the clerk of the board of police commissioners in any municipality or any justice of the peace may sign and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses…

Sec. 7-280. Witness fees. The same fees as provided by law for witnesses in civil causes shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipality to any witnesses, except policemen, who attend and testify under the provisions of section 7-279, the amount of such fees to be certified…

Sec. 7-281. Execution of criminal process in towns, cities and boroughs. Execution of arrest warrants. Active members of any legally organized police force in a town, city or borough shall have the same authority to execute criminal process in their respective towns, cities or bo…

Sec. 7-281a. Free use of COLLECT system. Each municipal police department shall have access to, and use of, the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing System without charge. (P.A. 87-427, S. 1, 2.)

Sec. 7-282. Municipal accident and police records. The police department of any city, town or borough having or receiving any memoranda, sketches, charts, written statements, reports or photographs made in the investigation of any accident wherein any person has been injured or p…

Sec. 7-282a. Reporting of bomb incidents. Section 7-282a is repealed, effective October 1, 1997. (P.A. 76-89; P.A. 85-613, S. 86, 154; P.A. 97-162, S. 5.)

Sec. 7-282b. Automatic telephone alarms. No person shall install or connect any telephone device in his residence or place of business which device is capable of automatically calling and relaying recorded messages to a Division of State Police, or municipal police or fire depart…

Sec. 7-282c. Filing and dissemination of reports re missing children, missing youths and certain missing persons. Any municipal police department which receives a report of a missing child or missing youth under eighteen years of age or a missing person who is eligible for assist…

Sec. 7-282d. Imposition of pedestrian citation or traffic ticket quotas prohibited. No municipal police department may impose any quota with respect to the issuance of citations to pedestrians or summonses for motor vehicle violations upon any policeman in such department. Nothin…

Sec. 7-282e. Intervention in or reporting of use of unreasonable, excessive or illegal force by a witnessing officer. Records of incidents of use of physical force, discharge of a firearm or engagement of a pursuit. Review and reporting of use of force incidents. (a)(1) Any polic…

Sec. 7-282f. Firearm incident reports. Annual compilation and report. (a) For purposes of this section, “police officer” and “law enforcement unit” have the same meanings as provided in section 7-294a, and “firearm” has the same meaning as provided in section 53a-3. (b) On and af…

Sec. 7-283. Employment of private detectives. No municipal corporation shall employ private detectives in the investigation or detection of crime at an expense of more than five hundred dollars unless a specific appropriation therefor has been made, nor unless the authorities the…

Sec. 7-284. Police protection at places of amusement. When police protection is necessary or required at any boxing bout or wrestling match, place of public amusement, sport contest or hockey, baseball or basketball game, or any other exhibition or contest, which is being held or…

Sec. 7-285. Sale of unclaimed goods by police departments. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the board of police commissioners, the chief of police, superintendent of police or other authority having charge of a police department may sell by public auc…

Sec. 7-286. Police matrons in certain cities. In each city of this state having a population of twenty thousand or more, as shown by the last-preceding United States census, the board of police commissioners or police committee shall appoint a police matron, whose duty it shall b…

Sec. 7-287. Female prisoners under care of police matron. The board of police commissioners or the police committee in each such city shall assign a certain part of the central police station of the city for female prisoners, which part shall be under the care and control of the …

Sec. 7-288. Duty of police matron. The police matron shall take charge of that part of the station so assigned for female prisoners and keep the same in proper condition; and shall, at all times when there are no female prisoners at the station, be within easy call and attend day…

Sec. 7-289. Qualifications of matron; salary; removal. Each police matron shall be (1) a female police officer or (2) a woman at least eighteen years of age. The hiring authority may establish other qualifications for the employment of police matrons and require evidence of fulfi…

Sec. 7-290. Separate station for female prisoners. Any city, required by section 7-286 to have a police matron, may provide a separate station for the detention of female prisoners. In any city which has no board of police commissioners or board charged with its general duties, t…

Sec. 7-291. Police surgeons. Section 7-291 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 673; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-291a. Efforts re recruitment, retention and promotion of minority police officers. Annual report. (a) If a law enforcement unit serves a community with a relatively high concentration of minority residents, the unit shall make efforts to recruit, retain and promote minorit…

Sec. 7-291b. Guidelines re recruitment, retention and promotion of minority police officers. Not later than January 1, 2016, each law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-294a, shall develop and implement guidelines for the recruitment, retention and promotion of minority po…

Sec. 7-291c. Prohibition against hiring police officer dismissed for malfeasance or who resigned or retired while under investigation. (a) No law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-294a, shall hire any person as a police officer, as defined in said section 7-294a, who was …

Sec. 7-291d. Employment protection of police officer who seeks or receives mental health care services. Return to duty. Law enforcement unit liability. (a)(1) No law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-294a, shall discharge, discipline, discriminate against or otherwise pen…

Sec. 7-291e. Requirements re provision of behavioral health assessments to police officers. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Administrative head of each law enforcement unit” means the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the board of police commissioners, t…

Sec. 7-292. Adoption of forty-hour week for policemen. (a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, adopt an average work week of forty hours for permanent paid policemen as provided in sections 7-293 and 7-294 and this section. (b) The legislative body of such municipality may, by or…

Sec. 7-293. Work week. The work week for all permanent paid members of the uniformed police force for municipalities adopting sections 7-292 to 7-294, inclusive, shall be an average work week of not more than forty hours, computed over a period of one fiscal or calendar year, as …

Sec. 7-294. Earnings not affected. There shall be no diminution in the weekly earnings of any police in municipalities adopting the provisions of sections 7-292 to 7-294, inclusive, nor shall there be any lessening of any of their existing rights and privileges, as the result of …

Sec. 7-294a. Police Officer Standards and Training Council: Definitions. As used in section 7-291e, this section, and sections 7-294b to 7-294e, inclusive: (1) “Academy” means the Connecticut Police Academy; (2) “Applicant” means a prospective police officer who has not commenced…

Sec. 7-294aa. Reinstatement of state or municipal police officers upon return from participation in international peacekeeping operations. (a) Any sworn police officer employed by the state or a municipality who takes a leave of absence or resigns from such officer's employment o…

Sec. 7-294aaa. Establishment of civilian police review boards. (a) The legislative body of a town may, by ordinance, establish a civilian police review board. The ordinance shall, at a minimum, prescribe: (1) The scope of authority of the civilian police review board; (2) the num…

Sec. 7-294b. Members of council. Holding of other office. (a) There shall be a Police Officer Standards and Training Council which shall be within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. (b) The council shall consist of the following members: (1) The chief ele…

Sec. 7-294bb. State and local police policy concerning complaints from the public alleging misconduct committed by law enforcement personnel. (a) Not later than July 1, 2015, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council shall develop and implement a written policy concerning…

Sec. 7-294bbb. Municipal law enforcement unit meetings with stakeholders. (a) On or before October 1, 2023, and on a quarterly basis thereafter, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each municipal law enforcement unit shall hold a meeting with stakeholders in the…

Sec. 7-294c. Submission of annual report by council to Governor and General Assembly. Not later than January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the council shall submit an annual report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the Governor and the joint standing com…

Sec. 7-294cc. Development and promulgation of policy and form re police use of electronic defense weapons. Not later than January 1, 2015, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council established under section 7-294b shall develop and promulgate (1) a model policy that provi…

Sec. 7-294d. Powers of council. Certification of police officers, police training schools and law enforcement instructors. Refusal to renew, suspension, cancellation or revocation of certification. Hearing. Automatic certification. Exemptions. Written guidance to law enforcement …

Sec. 7-294dd. Reimbursement for cost of police officer certification. (a) For purposes of this section, “police officer”, “certification” and “law enforcement unit” have the same meanings as provided in section 7-294a and “cost of certification” means the cost of training, equipm…

Sec. 7-294e. Recertification of police officers. Regulations. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute or special act or local law, ordinance or charter to the contrary, each police officer shall forfeit such officer's appointment and position unless recertified …

Sec. 7-294ee. Minimum standards and practices for the administration, management and operation of law enforcement units. Unit state-accreditation tier certification or accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (a) The Police Officer Stand…

Sec. 7-294f. State and local police training programs to include course on sexual assault investigation and rape crisis intervention. Each police basic training program conducted or administered by the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Publi…

Sec. 7-294ff. Development of model critical incident and peer support policy. Policy adoption. Provision of peer support and mental health referral services. (a) Not later than January 1, 2020, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, established under section 7-294b, t…