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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 901
ARRESTS AND TEMPORARY DETENTIONS
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901.1505 Federal law enforcement officers; powers.
(1) As used in this section, the term “federal law enforcement officer” means a person who is employed by the Federal Government as a full-time law enforcement officer as defined by the applicable provisions of the United States Code, who is empowered to effect an arrest for violations of the United States Code, who is authorized to carry firearms in the performance of her or his duties, and who has received law enforcement training equivalent to that prescribed in s. 943.13.
(2) Every federal law enforcement officer has the following authority:
(a) To make a warrantless arrest of any person who has committed a felony or misdemeanor as defined by state statute, which felony or misdemeanor involves violence, in the presence of the officer while the officer is engaged in the exercise of her or his federal law enforcement duties. If the officer reasonably believes that such a felony or misdemeanor as defined by state statute has been committed in her or his presence, the officer may make a warrantless arrest of any person whom she or he reasonably believes to have committed such felony or misdemeanor.
(b) To use any force which the officer reasonably believes to be necessary to defend herself or himself or another from bodily harm while making the arrest or any force necessarily committed in arresting any felon fleeing from justice when the officer reasonably believes either that the fleeing felon poses a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer or others or that the fleeing felon has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm to another person.
(c) To conduct a warrantless search incident to the arrest, as provided in s. 901.21, and to conduct any other constitutionally permissible search pursuant to the officer’s lawful duties.
(d) To possess firearms; and to seize weapons in order to protect herself or himself from attack, prevent the escape of an arrested person, or assure the subsequent lawful custody of the fruits of a crime or the articles used in the commission of a crime, as provided in s. 901.21.
History.s. 1, ch. 91-43; s. 1458, ch. 97-102.

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Cases Citing Statute 901.1505

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Goss v. State, 744 So. 2d 1167 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1999 WL 992690

...pated or will participate in criminal activity. See Smith v. State, 637 So.2d 343 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994). Although an officer cannot make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor or ordinance violation unless it is conducted in the officer's presence, see § 901.1505, Fla....
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Ward v. State, 965 So. 2d 308 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 2710748

...(2002) (defining "law enforcement officer"); § 539.001(2)(b) (defining appropriate law enforcement official); § 705.101(4), Fla. Stat. (2002) (defining "law enforcement officer"); § 741.28(4), Fla. Stat. (2002) (defining "law enforcement"); § 896.101(2)(d), Fla. Stat. (2002) (defining "law enforcement officer"); § 901.1505(1), Fla....
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In Re Stand. Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases-report No. 2015-08, 194 So. 3d 1007 (Fla. 2016).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2016 WL 3654189

...The impersonation occurred during the commission of a felony. The court instructs you that (name of felony) is a felony. A[n] (name of felony) is defined as (insert elements of felony). Definitions. Give if applicable. § 901.1505, Fla....
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In Re: Stand. Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases - Report 2019-09 (Fla. 2020).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...The impersonation occurred during the commission of a - 19 - felony. The court instructs you that (name of felony) is a felony. A[n] (name of felony) is defined as (insert elements of felony). Definitions. Give if applicable. § 901.1505, Fla....
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Raulerson v. State of Florida (Fla. 1st DCA 2025).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...discipline”). Next, having established certification standards for law- enforcement officers, the Legislature enumerates a variety of circumstances when a “law enforcement officer may arrest a person without a warrant.” § 901.15, Fla. Stat.; see also § 901.1505, Fla....

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