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TO EVERYONE READING THIS. .. CONSTABLES ARE NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. THEY RECEIVE 40 HOURS A YEAR IN TRAINING, DRIVE CARS PAID FOR BY THEMSELVES, AND HAVE NO BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF LAW, OR CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
They serve civil papers and carry a gun.
Please spread the word.
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Wow.
Little testy there, aren't we?
I was a deputy Constable in TN, back in the day.
The problem now is that (in TN) they've had their (state) Constitutional authority stripped. Some departments have statutory power (their authority written into the statutes), others have theirs written into the Constitution.
Because of this, some Constables retain full law enforcement powers, others do not. In many areas, once they lost their Constitutional authority, the county legislature then wrote them completely out of the books, so in those counties, they don't even exist. Here in Loudon, for example, we have none. In Union, they have them, and they have full plenary police powers.
So, there's that.
OP, sorry about your situation. Sounds like someone shit in your honeyhole and now you get to pay for it. IF it really matters, you could research who the property owner / manager is, and get a written use permit. Beats shooting at a range most times, you know?
As far as the officer being rude, he may have been. Or, you may have been the fourth person this week he's been tasked to keep out of there because the owner has had it with the trash and the shooting of the concrete pipes, and its' wearing thin.
Like a lot of the current 'someone is trespassing on my property' threads, except in reverse!