AL SB183

Authorizes the Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe to employ certified police officers who meet Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission requirements to protect tribal reservation property and residents.

Tribal police officers have the powers of state police officers, including the right to bear firearms, and may eject trespassers, arrest individuals for disorderly conduct or trespassing without a warrant, and arrest individuals with a lawful warrant for offenses committed on the reservation.

Tribal police authority is limited to the reservation boundaries, except when lawfully pursuing offenders suspected of committing offenses on the reservation or making arrests for felonies committed in the officer's presence or with probable cause on the reservation.

No state or local funds allocated for law enforcement may be used to support tribal police officers, and an officer's authority immediately ceases upon termination of tribal employment.

Individuals arrested by tribal police officers may be transferred to the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the offense for prosecution.