Auxiliary police officers came into the spotlight when a 73 year old Auxiliary sheriff was on duty and ended up shooting and killed a man for making a mistake. He thought the person had a gun on him but it turned out to be a stun gun. “The potential danger arises when you have these officers, who don’t receive anywhere near the amount of training a regular full-time police officer receives, put into situations where they’re actually carrying out somewhat dangerous police functions,” said Thomas Nolan, an associate professor of criminology at Merrimack College in Massachusetts.
Auxiliary police are also used in events, usually to help keep the crowd under especially in larger events, but most of the times they usually patrol the streets, they