Talk:Pennsylvania State Constables

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Once again, there seems to be vandalism occuring on this page. Rather than simply "restoring" the page to stub status, please add information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hanley1029 (talk • contribs) 04:55, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

There seems to be a concern regarding negative v. postitive news articles. The person below who stated that the article was unbalanced should add some content. When adding in content, I looked all over for news articles and court cases. If the person below has some information that would be helpful to the article as a whole, then please add it. However, do not launch personal attacks such as "lies, half truths, and misleading info", "must have been a constable hater". "Restoring" the page back to its "original" content turns it back into a stub. If there is a concern regarding the veracity of the content, then we can always hash it out on this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hanley1029 (talk • contribs) 11:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Restored the page back to cited, non-stub state, before vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hanley1029 (talk • contribs) 21:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I restored the page back to it's original content as best I could. A lot of lies, half truths and misleading info had been put in. Also very negative news articles, no good ones. It was very unbalanced. Must have been a constable hater. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.27.54.4 (talk) 16:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

This addition desperately needs to be proved or revoked, if not true (Although I wouldn't be surprized if it was), it's highly misleading and (IMAO) comes close to slander. 68.39.174.238 15:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The information comes from www.pastateconstable.org and the administrator of that site has given permission for the use of any information on that site to be used on Wikipedia, to verify this you can contact the administrator directly at admin@pastateconstable.org, or visit the website to see authorization http://pastateconstable.org/history.html , there is no copyright infringement and whoever reported that there is did so as an act of vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.74.203.123 (talk • contribs)

State Constables in Pennsylvania are elected at the Municipal level, they are public officials and hold office in the executive branch of government, they have the discretion to administer their office according to statute and can appoint deputies to serve under their authority.

There are many State Constables Offices throughout the commonwealth, some are composed of just one State Constable, others are composed of several State Constables and their deputies from multiple municipalities who work together.

The Constables power of arrest is not limited to felonies, they can arrest by warrant or for ANY breach of the peace or offense endangering people or property committed in their view. They are state actors as per statute and federal court ruling. Their arrest powers are NOT the same as a citizens arrest. The person who keeps attempting to change this information is malicious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.27.54.4 (talk) 15:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Please do not launch personal attacks.
 * 2) Please do not add unreferenced material. What you add has to be verifiable. Thank you ninety:one 21:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Title
Shouldn't this be "Pennsylvania State Constable" ? The articel text and website names seem to refer to them as "State Constables" and not "State Constable Officers". 68.39.174.238 (talk) 20:50, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Nowhere is there any official source that says a pa constables arrest authority is the same as a citizens arrest. That's absolute fiction and many constables from many different IP addresses will continue to delete such lies, these lies put constables at risk of having someone resist arrest based on false information.

Here's a link to the law:

http://stateconstable.itgo.com/laws.html?XTIME=1172963960

and another source:

http://pastateconstable.org/history.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.50.194 (talk) 02:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

The citations above are non-authoritative. The citations in the article are taken directly from Pennsylvania Court Cases, specifically PA Superior Court and PA Supreme Court. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.183.227 (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

NPOV
Article contains a large section of solely negative criticism. ninety:one 00:24, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

added language that shows that constables are not inept. i cant believe some of the stuff people say about constables —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.183.227 (talk) 13:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

This article is such a mess
I have removed all unsourced material. The latest IP has only removed sourced material, with non-existent or misleading edit summaries. Anything else added will need to be referenced due to the now-contentious nature of this article. ninety:one 22:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Nowhere is there any official source that says a pa constables arrest authority is the same as a citizens arrest. That's absolute fiction and many constables from many different IP addresses will continue to delete such lies, these lies put constables at risk of having someone resist arrest based on false information.

Here's a link to the law:

http://stateconstable.itgo.com/laws.html?XTIME=1172963960

and another source:

http://pastateconstable.org/history.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.50.194 (talk) 02:37, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Constables are not police and cannot have red or blue lights. This is according to PA Title 44 which overseas constables
I'm not sure why someone keeps changing this to state constables are police. Constables are not police, they are elected officials whom are authorized to do district court work and charge a fee for there services according to PA Title 44 2606:9400:8A9F:7BE0:C84A:D625:43B:9718 (talk) 19:36, 4 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I absolutely agree.  Most of these constables moved from NJ or NY to Pennsylvania, and cannot pass the requirements for Police Officers in Pennsylvania.
 * Constables job is a good job, no need to screw it up by saying your a police officer. I keep mentioning the Constable handbook, and someone keeps deleting the post. 69.172.138.131 (talk) 10:38, 5 July 2024 (UTC)