Pennsylvania Statutes Title 22 P.S. Detectives § 43. Definitions

As used in this act:

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police.

“Full-time police officer” means any employee of a city, borough, town, township or county police department assigned to law enforcement duties who works a minimum of two hundred days per year.  The term does not include persons employed to check parking meters or to perform only administrative duties, nor does it include auxiliary and fire police.

“Lethal weapons” include but are not limited to firearms and other weapons calculated to produce death or serious bodily harm.  A concealed billy club is a lethal weapon.  The chemical mace or any similar substance shall not be considered as “lethal weapons” for the purposes of this act.

“Privately employed agents” include any person employed for the purpose of providing watch guard, protective patrol, detective or criminal investigative services either for another for a fee or for his employer.  Privately employed agents do not include local, state or federal government employees or those police officers commissioned by the Governor under the act of February 27, 1865 (P.L. 225, No. 228). 1  The term shall include a police officer of a municipal authority.

“Program” means the education and training program established and administered or approved by the commissioner in accordance with this act.