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HB 111 Engrossed 2019 Regular Session Stefanski
Abstract: Amends the crime of disarming of a peace officer to apply to the taking of equipment
used by the peace officer in the course and scope of his duties and approved for such use by
the peace officer's law enforcement agency.
Present law provides that the crime of disarming of a peace officer is committed when an offender,
through use of force or threat of force, and without the consent of the peace officer, takes possession
of any law enforcement equipment from the person of a peace officer or from an area within the
peace officer's immediate control, when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe that the
victim is a peace officer acting in the performance of his duty.
For these purposes, present law defines "law enforcement equipment" as any firearms, weapons,
restraints, ballistics shields, forced entry tools, defense technology equipment, self-defense batons,
self-defense sprays, chemical weapons, or electro shock weapons issued to a peace officer and used
in the course and scope of his law enforcement duties.
Proposed law amends present law to remove the requirement that the law enforcement equipment
be issued to the peace officer by his law enforcement agency for the crime of disarming of a peace
officer to apply. Proposed law also adds an element of the crime that the equipment be approved by
the peace officer's law enforcement agency for use by the peace officer in the course and scope of
his duties.
Proposed law otherwise retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 14:34.6(B)(1))