No, I retain 100% LEO powers off-duty. Your OPINION might be that we lose LEO powers working off-duty but we do not. I can wander off-duty in the mall and arrest someone if warranted.
My reading of the Indiana Court of Appeals. Who knows what they meant:
Bowman involved an off-duty officer who was working as a security guard at a retail store. Although it was dicta in Bowman, it became a holding in Glispie:"And, when police officers are acting in the capacity of private security guards, they shed their cloak of State agency and become agents of the private hiring authority, thereby requiring no more of them with regard to a defendant's constitutional rights than of any other citizen." Bowman v. State, 468 N.E.2d 1064, 1068 (Ind. Ct. App. 1984)
In Glispie an officer could be an agent, but the agency had to be explicit."We recognize that there is case law holding that a police officer cannot simultaneously act as a law enforcement officer and a private agent." Glispie v. State, 955 N.E.2d 819, 823 (Ind. Ct. App. 2011).
A Terry frisk is OK so a wanding will be as well.
Has the SCOTUS or the SCIND said this? Do you not see a difference between a frisk and a wanding?
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