Chapter 22C

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''AMBER alert plan'', the America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response Alert Plan authorizing the broadcast media, upon notice from the department…

Section 10. Whenever the governor shall deem it necessary to provide more effectively for the protection of persons and property and for the maintenance of law and order in the commonwealth, such officer may authorize, in writing, the colonel to make appointments to the departmen…

Section 10A. The colonel may establish a cadet program within the department and may admit as a state police cadet, for a period of full-time on the job training, a citizen resident in the commonwealth who: (i) is not less than 19 years of age and not more than 25 years of age; (…

Section 11. Each appointment for initial enlistment as a uniformed member of the state police shall be made from a list established as the result of a competitive examination conducted under the direction of the colonel, after consultation with the personnel administrator, who sh…

Section 12. Any uniformed member of the state police may, upon view of any misdemeanor committed in his presence while on duty, arrest the person committing such misdemeanor, where such misdemeanor was committed in any building or grounds owned or occupied, wholly or in part by t…

Section 13. (a) A uniformed member of the state police who has served for at least 1 year and against whom charges have been preferred shall be tried by a board to be appointed by the colonel or, at the request of the officer, a board consisting of the colonel. A person aggrieved…

Section 14. No person who has been convicted of a felony or any offense punishable under chapter 94C or has been convicted of a misdemeanor and has been confined to any jail or house of correction as punishment for said crime shall be appointed as an employee of the department, i…

Section 15. Each officer shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and unless his oath of office is taken within three months after the date of his appointment, the appointment shall be void.

Section 16. The colonel may authorize the payment, out of any appropriation made for traveling or other expenses of the department, of the reasonable hospital, medical and surgical expenses incurred by any trainee or officer of the department when temporarily or permanently disab…

Section 17. The colonel shall forward to the secretary of public safety and the commissioner of administration his estimate of expenses for the department as required under section three of chapter twenty-nine, a statement of the approximate proportion of the time of the departme…

Section 18. The colonel may, in the event of any public emergency, or of any unusual demand for the services of members of the state police serving in any bureau of the department, or whenever he deems it in the public interest, require such members to work additional hours of du…

Section 19. The colonel shall promulgate rules and regulations to provide a standard form or forms of uniform to be worn by members of the state police and to authorize such members to carry badges, revolvers, clubs, handcuffs, twisters or such other articles as may be required i…

Section 2. There shall be within the executive office of public safety a department of state police under the supervision and control of the colonel of state police.

Section 20. The colonel shall prescribe a training program for persons who shall be enlisted for the first time in the department such that no person shall exercise police powers as such a uniformed member until he shall have been assigned to and satisfactorily completed such tra…

Section 21. The colonel may conduct programs for training police officers of the cities and towns of the commonwealth and for those employees who are authorized to exercise police powers in the various state departments or agencies and the colonel shall appoint necessary instruct…

Section 22. Except as otherwise provided by a collective bargaining agreement in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty E, evaluation reports of the performance of each member of the state police shall be submitted annually to the colonel by the superviso…

Section 23. There shall be within the department of state police an office of affirmative action which shall report to the secretary of public safety; provided, that such office shall be responsible for implementing policies of nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmativ…

Section 24. If uniformed members of the state police in positions in the same rank are to be separated from such positions because of lack of work, lack of money or abolition of positions, said uniformed members shall be separated from such employment according to their seniority…

Section 24A. (a) Any person who has been retired for disability pursuant to section 6, 7, or 26 of chapter 32 who, upon return to active service in the same position, would so return in the position of a sworn member of the department of state police and is subsequently determine…

Section 25. The colonel shall prepare a notice for all promotional examinations and shall cause notice thereof to be published in the orders of the department no later than thirty days prior to the final date for filing of applications therefor. No such promotional examination sh…

Section 26. (a) The colonel may promote uniformed members of the state police who are deemed eligible for promotion by the colonel to the title of noncommissioned officer or lieutenant. Promotional examinations to the title of noncommissioned officer or lieutenant shall include a…

Section 26A. (a) The colonel may promote uniformed members to the title of captain. To be eligible for promotion to the title of captain, a uniformed member shall: (i) successfully pass a promotional examination which may include a written test, an assessment process designed to …

Section 27. Any vacancy that occurs in the title of lieutenant colonel shall be filled by the colonel from uniformed members who hold the title of major or captain. Any vacancy that occurs in the title of major shall be filled by the colonel from uniformed members who hold the ti…

Section 28A. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections forty-five and forty-six of chapter thirty, each officer in grade of lieutenant in the department of state police shall receive a base salary of fifteen point five percent greater than the regular salary payable to the next …

Section 29. The colonel shall enter into an agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for police service to be provided by the department to said authority on the turnpike and the metropolitan highway system. Said agreement shall fix the legal and fiscal respo…

Section 3. The colonel shall be the executive and administrative head of the department and shall have charge of the administration and organization thereof. The colonel may, subject to the approval of the governor and the secretary of public safety and except as otherwise provid…

Section 30. The colonel shall enter into an agreement with the Massachusetts Port Authority for police service to be provided by the department at the General Edward Lawrence Logan international airport. Said agreement shall fix the legal and fiscal responsibility pertaining to t…

Section 31. The colonel shall enter into an agreement with the Massachusetts water resources authority for police service to be provided by the department to the authority. Said agreement shall fix the legal and fiscal responsibility pertaining to the operation and maintenance of…

Section 32. For the purposes of sections thirty-three to thirty-five, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''Crime reporting unit'', a joint project of the department of state police and the department of criminal justice information services charged…

Section 33. The colonel shall promulgate regulations relative to the collection of hate crime data. Said regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) establishment of a central repository for the collection and analysis of hate crime data and, upon the est…

Section 34. The crime reporting unit shall summarize and analyze reports of hate crime data which shall be received by said unit. Said unit shall transmit copies of all such reports regarding hate crime data to the governor, the attorney general, the joint committees on public sa…

Section 35. The crime reporting unit shall cause any hate crime data collected to be made available for use by any law enforcement agency and shall also be made available to any unit of local government, to any state agency and to the general public in a manner consistent with th…

Section 36. The colonel shall provide within the department for receiving, arranging and keeping proper means for the identification of criminals and for the furnishing of means of identification of criminals to police departments of cities and towns, to the department of correct…

Section 36A. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the department of state police, including the state police violent fugitive arrest squad, and local police departments, shall be provided with identifying information up…

Section 37. Not less than seven days before the time set for the release or discharge on parole, or otherwise, of any person confined in a penal or reformatory institution of the commonwealth or of any county under sentence for an assault of an indecent nature under section thirt…

Section 38. The criminal information section of the department shall be charged with the following duties and functions: (a) Said section shall collect, by investigation of its own and by receipt from other law enforcement agencies, information concerning organized crime, organiz…

Section 39. (a) The department shall, free of charge, or the University of Massachusetts Medical School shall, under section 36B of chapter 75, make a chemical analysis of any narcotic drug, any synthetic substitute for the same, any preparation containing the same, or any salt o…

Section 39A. The department shall analyze, in accordance with sections 36 to 39, inclusive, of chapter 138, all samples of alcoholic beverages, as defined in section 1 of said chapter 138, submitted to it for that purpose by police authorities as provided in said section 36 if sa…

Section 39B. The director of the crime laboratory within the department shall establish procedural rules and policies governing the department's testing and analysis of drug samples and shall establish a quality assurance program for the department, which shall include proficienc…

Section 4. There shall be within the department of state police four divisions which shall be known as: (a) the division of field services; (b) the division of investigation and intelligence; (c) the division of special police services; and (d) the division of support services. T…

Section 40. The narcotics unit within the criminal information section shall be charged with the following duties and functions: to investigate all violations of the narcotic and harmful drug laws of the commonwealth; to arrest all violators of such laws; and to cooperate with th…

Section 41. A certificate by a chemist of the department of the result of analysis made by him for the presence of a sperm cell or cells or seminal fluid on or in any material or substance furnished him by a police officer of any department, signed and sworn to by such chemist, s…

Section 42. In proceedings under sections twenty-seven A, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, one hundred and eleven A and one hundred and thirty-nine of chapter two hundred and sixty-six, certified copies of any motor vehicle or trailer ownership records, including computer records, in t…

Section 43. Any person affected by an order of the department or of a division or officer thereof, may, within such times as the colonel may fix, which shall not be less than ten days after notice of such order, appeal to the colonel who shall thereupon grant a hearing, and after…

Section 44. The colonel may after two years destroy or otherwise dispose of applications for approval of entertainments on Sunday, inspection reports of theaters and halls under the state building code, and applications for permits for special exhibitions of pictures. Any proceed…

Section 45. If money, goods or other property which has been stolen, lost, abandoned or taken from a person under arrest comes in the possession of an officer or other employee of the department by virtue of his office or employment, he shall deliver the same to the person design…

Section 46. Such property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate greatly in value by keeping, or the value of which will probably be less than the expense of keeping, may be sold at public auction at such place and at such time within six months and by such person as the colonel…

Section 47. The proceeds of such sales, together with such unclaimed money, after deducting all reasonable charges and expenses incurred on account of such property, shall be accounted for and paid to the commonwealth.

Section 48. If, within two years and six months after such money has come into the possession of an officer or other employee of said department or within two years after any such sale, the owner claims such property and proves ownership to the satisfaction of the colonel, the am…

Section 49. The form used by an investigating police officer to make a report concerning any incident, offense or alleged offense investigated or any arrest made shall provide a space to indicate whether such incident, offense, alleged offense or arrest involved abuse as defined …