14-6-10
Section 14-6-10 Removal of prisoners - Use of guards. (a) When it becomes necessary to remove any prisoner from the jail of one county to another, in any case by law provided, the sheriff, or other officer having charge of such prisoner, has authority, and it is his duty, to summon such guards as may be necessary to prevent an escape. (b) When prisoners are removed from the jail under the provisions of either Section 14-6-8 or 14-6-9, the sheriff or jailer has authority, and it is his duty, to summon such guards as may be necessary to insure their safekeeping. (Code 1852, §§250, 254; Code 1867, §§3798, 3802; Code 1876, §§4498, 4502; Code 1886, §§4546, 4551; Code 1896, §§4957, 4962; Code 1907, §§7202, 7207; Code 1923, §§4812, 4817; Code 1940, T. 45, §§130, 134.)...
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45-17-231.20
Section 45-17-231.20 Establishment of sheriff reserve; officers; duties. (a) The Sheriff of Colbert County is hereby authorized to establish a sheriff reserve to be composed of such persons who may volunteer to serve as sheriff reserve officers of the sheriff's department. Such service shall be without compensation to the individual so volunteering. (b) Sheriff reserve officers shall at all times serve under the direction and supervision of the sheriff and/or members of the sheriff's department. The sheriff shall determine the fitness of persons to serve as sheriff reserve officers and shall prescribe such training necessary for reserve officers. (c) The duties of a sheriff reserve officer shall be limited to assisting the sheriff's department in the performance of its regularly constituted duties and shall serve under the immediate supervision of a lawful sheriff's department officer. Sheriff reserve officers shall have the authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty. Reserve...
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45-48-230.40
Section 45-48-230.40 Sheriff reserve officers. (a) The Sheriff of Marshall County is hereby authorized to establish a sheriff reserve to be composed of persons who volunteer to serve, without compensation, as sheriff reserve officers of the sheriff's department. (b) The sheriff reserve officers shall at all times serve under the direction and supervision of the sheriff or members of the sheriff's department. The sheriff shall determine the fitness of persons to serve as sheriff reserve officers and shall provide the training necessary for reserve officers. (c) The duties of a sheriff reserve officer shall be limited to assisting the sheriff's department in the performance of its regularly constituted duties. The reserve officers shall serve under the immediate supervision of a lawful sheriff's department officer. The sheriff reserve officers shall have the authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty and shall have arrest powers only in the event the full-time sheriff's department...
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14-3-58
Section 14-3-58 Notification and procedures upon escape of inmate; reward. (a) This section shall be known as the "Joel Willmore Act." (b) Whenever an inmate escapes from a penal facility, as defined in subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of Section 13A-10-30, or when a probationer or parolee who has a prior conviction for a Class A felony or a crime in which the victim was a child less than 12 years of age or is serving a life sentence absconds from a residential facility, it shall be the duty of the department or other agency having custody of the prisoner to take all proper measures for his or her apprehension, and for that purpose, it shall notify the following as soon as possible, but not later than 12 hours after the escape: (1) The Governor. (2) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. (3) The sheriff and district attorney of the county where the escape occurred. (4) The chief of police where the escape occurred, if the escape occurred within a municipality. (5) The sheriff and...
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16-55-10
Section 16-55-10 Police officers. (a) The President of the University of South Alabama may appoint and employ suitable persons to serve as police officers to keep off intruders and prevent trespass upon and damage to the property and grounds of the university. Such persons shall be charged with all the duties and invested with all the powers of police officers. An officer may eject trespassers from university buildings and grounds owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the university. An officer may arrest any person for any offense provided by law and shall transport the offender to the nearest district court or municipal court charged with the trial of such offense. (b) The police officers provided for in this section shall cooperate with and, when requested, furnish assistance to the regularly constituted authorities of the Municipalities of Mobile and Fairhope, and their jurisdiction and authority shall be coextensive within the police jurisdictions of those municipalities. (c)...
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22-50-21
Section 22-50-21 Police officers for state mental health facilities or hospitals. The State Mental Health Officer may appoint or employ one or more suitable persons to act as police officers to arrest intruders, trespassers, and persons guilty of improper or disorderly conduct on the property of state mental health facilities or hospitals. Such officers shall be charged with all the duties and invested with all the powers of police officers and may eject trespassers from the hospital grounds, buildings, or lands or arrest them and may, without warrant, arrest any person guilty of abuse of a patient, of a misdemeanor or disorderly conduct, of stealing or injuring property or other offenses committed on the lands or premises of the hospitals and take such person before a district court judge or other officer charged with trial of such offenders, before whom, upon proper affidavit charging the offense, the person so arrested shall be tried and, if found guilty, convicted as in cases of...
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31-2A-85
Section 31-2A-85 (Article 85.) Desertion. (a) Any member of the Alabama National Guard who does any of the following is guilty of desertion: (1) Without authority goes or remains absent from his or her unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away permanently. (2) Quits his or her unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service. (3) Without being regularly separated from the Alabama National Guard, enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another one of the state military forces, or in one of the Armed Forces of the United States, without fully disclosing the fact that he or she has not been regularly separated, or enters any foreign armed service except when authorized by the United States. (b) Any commissioned officer of the Alabama National Guard who, after tender of his or her resignation and before notice of its acceptance, quits his or her post or proper duties without leave and with intent to remain...
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14-3-13
Section 14-3-13 Officers and guards - Oath of office. Every officer and guard shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take and subscribe before some officer authorized to administer oaths, the following oath: "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alabama, so long as I remain a citizen thereof; that I will faithfully execute and discharge all the duties required of me as _____ (designating the office), and observe all the rules and regulations prescribed for the government of convicts, so far as concerns my office; and will, in no case, ill treat or abuse any convict under my charge or control, nor inflict upon him any other or greater punishment than may be prescribed by said rules and regulations. So help me God." (Code 1886, §4582; Code 1896, §4456; Code 1907, §6508; Code 1923, §3607; Code 1940, T. 45, §24.)...
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14-4-14
Section 14-4-14 Oath of Superintendent of Public Works and guards. The Superintendent of Public Works and each person employed as a guard over convicts sentenced to hard labor for the county, before he enters upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe the following oath before some officer authorized to administer the same: "I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alabama, so long as I remain a citizen of said state, and that I will faithfully execute and discharge all duties required of me (as superintendent or guard of convicts, as the case may be) and that I will observe all rules and regulations prescribed for the government of convicts, so far as I am thereby directed, and will in no case ill treat or abuse any convict under my charge or control or inflict any other or greater punishment than may be prescribed by said rules and regulations." Such oath shall be filed by the party taking the...
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15-7-4
Section 15-7-4 Warrant of arrest - Defined; contents; form. (a) A "warrant of arrest" is an order in writing, issued and signed by a judge or magistrate, stating the substance of the complaint and directed to a proper officer, commanding him to arrest the defendant. (b) Such warrant must designate the name of the defendant, if known; but if it states that the name is unknown to the judge or magistrate, then no name need be inserted. It must also state the offense by name or so that it can be clearly inferred, the county in which it was issued must appear from some part of the warrant, and the warrant must be signed by the judge or magistrate, with his name and initials of office, or the same must in some way appear from the warrant. It must be directed "to any lawful officer of the state," and, if executed by any lawful officer having authority to execute it, it is valid without regard to its direction. (c) A warrant of arrest may be in substance as follows: The State of Alabama,...
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