Section 13503 Of Article 1. Administration From California Penal Code >> Title 4. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.
13503
. In carrying out its duties and responsibilities, the
commission shall have all of the following powers:
(a) To meet at those times and places as it may deem proper.
(b) To employ an executive secretary and, pursuant to civil
service, those clerical and technical assistants as may be necessary.
(c) To contract with other agencies, public or private, or persons
as it deems necessary, for the rendition and affording of those
services, facilities, studies, and reports to the commission as will
best assist it to carry out its duties and responsibilities.
(d) To cooperate with and to secure the cooperation of county,
city, city and county, and other local law enforcement agencies in
investigating any matter within the scope of its duties and
responsibilities, and in performing its other functions.
(e) To develop and implement programs to increase the
effectiveness of law enforcement and when those programs involve
training and education courses to cooperate with and secure the
cooperation of state-level officers, agencies, and bodies having
jurisdiction over systems of public higher education in continuing
the development of college-level training and education programs.
(f) To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of every
department, agency, or instrumentality in the state government.
(g) To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it
fully and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power
granted to it.
(h) The commission shall not have the authority to adopt or carry
out a regulation that authorizes the withdrawal or revocation of a
certificate previously issued to a peace officer pursuant to this
chapter.
(i) Except as specifically provided by law, the commission shall
not have the authority to cancel a certificate previously issued to a
peace officer pursuant to this chapter.