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If a New Hampshire citizen sees a New Hampshire cop commit a state or federal felony, can a citizen legally effect a citizen's arrest? Can other LEOs (law enforcement officers) effect such an arrest? Does it matter if the offender LEO is a sheriff or corporate police officer?


Note: I know it's tempting to answer a different question: Is it practical or advisable to arrest a LEO? Please note that is a different question.

This question is also different from this question. My question is only concerned with the elements of a legal arrest in NH of LEOs, not what an arrest per se is legally defined as and not what retaliation is legal for the LEO who is hypothetically under arrest.

Michael Hardy
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