As used in KRS 61.902 to 61.930: (1) "Commission" means a commission issued to an individual by the secretary of justice and public safety, entitling the individual to perform special law enforcement duties on public property; (2) "Council" means the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; (3) "Cabinet" means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; (4) "Public property" means property currently owned or used by any organizational unit or agency of state, county, city, metropolitan government, or a combination of these. The term shall include propert y currently owned or used by public airport authorities; (5) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; (6) "Special law enforcement officer": (a) Means one whose duties include the protection of specific public property from intrusion, entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, intermeddling, or trespass; (b) Means one whose duties include the prevention, observation, or detection of, or apprehension for, any unlawful activity on specific public property; (c) Means one whose special d uties include the control of the operation, speed, and parking of motor vehicles, bicycles, and other vehicles, and the movement of pedestrian traffic on specific public property; (d) Means one whose duties include the answering of any intrusion alarm on specific public property; (e) Shall include the Capitol police, the Capital Plaza police, school resource officers as defined in KRS 158.441 who are employed directly by a local board of education, public airport authority security officers, and the officer s of the other public security forces established for the purpose of protecting specific public property; and (f) Shall not include members of a lawfully organized police unit or police force of state, county, city, or metropolitan government, or a combina tion of these, who are responsible for the detection of crime and the enforcement of the general criminal law enforcement of the state; it shall not include any of the following officials or officers: 1. Sheriffs, sworn deputy sheriffs, constables, sworn deputy constables, and coroners; 2. Auxiliary and reserve police appointed under KRS 95.160 or 95.445, or citation and safety officers authorized by KRS 83A.087 and 83A.088; 3. State park rangers and offic ers of the Division of Law Enforcement within the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; 4. Officers of the Transportation Cabinet responsible for law enforcement; 5. Officers of the Department of Corrections responsible for law enforcement; 6. Fire marshals and deputy fire marshals; 7. Other officers not mentioned above who are employed directly by state government and are responsible for law enforcement; 8. Federal peace officers; 9. Those campus security officers who are commissioned under KRS 164.950; 10. Private security guards, private security patrolmen, and investigators licensed pursuant to state statute; and 11. Railroad policemen covered by KRS 277.270 and 277.280; and (7) "Sworn public peace officer" means one who derives plenary or special l aw enforcement powers from, and is a full -time employee of, the federal government, the Commonwealth, or any political subdivision, agency, department, branch, or service of either, or of any municipality.
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