BCL
Engineer
California is different. Any peace officer is allowed to act if there is a danger or if the perp might get away, but routine juridiction for local law enforcement is limited to geographic boundaries. And when there's theoretically overlapping jurisdiction (like a county sheriff's dept) they rarely step on toes by performing routine enforcement in another place where another agency (city police) has "primary jurisdiction". The law specifies that CHP, UC Police, CSU Police, Dept of Corrections, Dept of Fish and Game (I've heard of them making traffic stops too), state Parks and Recreation officers, specified Forestry and Fire Protection officers, and (I kid you not) California State Fair Police have authority throughout the state.In Texas ALL Certified LE Officers have jurisdiction anywhere in the State and there are literally hundreds of LE Agencies!
Here in Austin (65% of the City Budget goes to Public Safety) we have the DPS (Highway Patrol Division/Texas Rangers)Inteligince Division/Investigations Division/Drug Enforcement Division etc) State Capitol Police/University of Texas Police/Austin Community College Police/AISD School Police/Airport Police/Austin Police Department/Park Rangers/Travis County Sheriffs/Constables and Deputy Constables/DA Investigators and Police/Court Police/ all the Suburbs around here (about 20 different ones all have their own Police/Williamson County Sheriff/Hays County Sheriff/Bastrop County Sherriff and all of their assorted Constables, Deputies, School Districts and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!
And all the various Alphabet LE Agencies from the Feds! Boy do we feel Safe, not a single Crime is ever committed around here, it's Safe I tell you, Safe! :help:
The law says that UC Police has a primary duty within campuses and 1 mile from campuses, but I know they don't step on toes even within that 1 mile boundary, and local police don't make it a habit of patrolling campuses. It does get interesting when they're preparing for riots (and I've seen cops in riot gear).