# Railroad Police Officers
> **US Department of Transportation** · Final rule. · Published 2016-12-07 · Effective 2017-02-06 · 81 FR 88127
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-29256
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Transportation
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 88127
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 207
- **Publication date:** 2016-12-07
- **Effective date:** 2017-02-06
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FRA-2016-0107, Notice No. 1
## Abstract

This rule amends FRA's regulations on railroad police officers to implement certain provisions of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Consistent with the FAST Act, FRA is amending its regulations to allow: Railroads to hire contractors as railroad police officers; railroad police officers to transfer from one state to another without immediately needing to be commissioned or certified in the new state; and a state to recognize an officer's training at another state's recognized police academy or at a Federal law enforcement training center as meeting the state's basic police officer certification or commissioning requirements.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/07/2016-29256/railroad-police-officers)
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