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wylde007 wrote:
What I hear from ProShooter is that he feels a LEO is free to violate the wishes of a property owner because of his employment status.
That is absolutely not what I
feel. I gave an explanation from the statutes I found. Please do not imply that
I think its ok to tromp over someone's wishes. My "feelings" have nothing to do with it. I was merely offering info from statutes as was requested.
I said, "my take" (obviously from the statutes mentioned) is that there is nothing that addresses it or defines it further than what I posted. That is what I was able to come up with from the statutes presented. The phrase about "wherever he may travel in the Commonwealth" does not have an exclusion of "except when on private property or where the owner of private property wishes otherwise". Also, LEO's are required to carry their ID at all times possible and are expected to act when a situation arises. It is one of those things about LE that you are never "truly" off duty. You are always expected to intervene when there is a crime in your presence, you are always subject to recall for a situation that arises. For that reason and others, most LEO's carry wherever they go and I have never seen a situation where a private property owner has asked a LEO todisarm. Sure they probably could, but its just not one of those things that happens a heckuva lot.
I do think that Peter Nap has an excellent point in that there's probably nothing else in the Code that addresses it, probably due to the idea that the GA never assumed it to be an issue worth codifying.