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Powers and duties - 22 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3303

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     § 3303.  Powers and duties.
        (a)  General powers.--Railroad and street railway policemen
     shall severally possess and exercise all the powers of a police
     officer in the City of Philadelphia, in and upon, and in the
     immediate and adjacent vicinity of, the property of the
     corporate authority or elsewhere within this Commonwealth while
     engaged in the discharge of their duties in pursuit of railroad,
     street railway or transportation system business.
        (b)  Detention of arrested persons.--The keepers of jails and
     other places of detention in any county of this Commonwealth
     shall receive all persons arrested by railroad or street railway
     policemen for purposes of detention until they are dealt with
     according to law.
        (c)  Badge.--Railroad and street railway policemen when on
     duty shall wear or carry a metallic shield containing the words
     "railroad police" or "railway police" and the name of the
     authority.
        (d)  Course of instruction.--Every railroad and street
     railway police officer shall successfully complete the same
     course of instruction required for municipal police officers by
     the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359, No.120), referred to as the
     Municipal Police Education and Training Law.

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