nonpublic school is situated to appoint such person or persons
as the board of directors of the school entity or administration
of the nonpublic school may designate to act as school police
officer for said school entity or nonpublic school. The judge,
upon such application, may appoint such person, or so many of
them as he may deem proper, to be such school police officer and
shall note the fact of such appointment to be entered upon the
records of the court. The judge may, at the request of the
school entity or nonpublic school, grant the school police
officer the power to arrest as provided in subsection (c)(2),
the authority to issue citations for summary offenses or the
authority to detain students until the arrival of local law
enforcement, or any combination thereof.
(a.1) Any school entity or nonpublic school which employs a
school police officer under this section shall report annually
to the Department of Education, Office of Safe Schools, the
following information regarding school police officers receiving
training as required under 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 21 Subch. D (relating
to municipal police education and training):
(1) The identity of the school entity or nonpublic school
and the number of school police officers it employs.
(2) The municipalities comprising the school entity or in
which the nonpublic school is located.
(3) The date and type of training provided to each school
police officer.
(b) Every school police officer so appointed shall, before
entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to
the oath required by the seventh article of the Constitution,
before an alderman or justice of the peace or prothonotary. Such
oath shall be filed by the justice of the peace, alderman, or
prothonotary among his papers, and a note made upon his docket
of the fact of the oath having been taken.
(b.1) Every school police officer who has been granted
powers under subsection (c)(2) or (3) or has been authorized to
carry a firearm must, before entering upon the duties of his
office, successfully complete training as set forth in 53
Pa.C.S. Ch. 21 Subch. D or have graduated from the Pennsylvania
State Police Academy and have been employed as a State trooper
with the Pennsylvania State Police.
(c) Such school police officer so appointed shall severally
possess and exercise all the following powers and duties:
(1) To enforce good order in school buildings, on school
buses and on school grounds in their respective school entities
or nonpublic schools. For purposes of this clause, the term
"school bus" shall include vehicles leased by the school entity
or nonpublic school to transport students and vehicles of mass
transit used by students to go to and from school when the
school police officer is responding to a report of an incident
involving a breach of good order or violation of law.
(2) If authorized by the court, to exercise the same powers
as are now or may hereafter be exercised under authority of law
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