Section 8584 - Definitions(a) "ACIM Alert Program" means the "A Child Is Missing Alert Program", a national rapid-response communication network that offers free assistance to law-enforcement agencies to aid in the recovery, identity, or apprehension of missing persons through the use of immediate public notification and dissemination of information via telephone in a targeted community.(b) "Gold Alert Program" means the program established in subchapter VII of this chapter to aid in the identification and location of certain missing persons.(c) "Investigating law-enforcement agency" means the law-enforcement agency that has primary jurisdiction over the area in which a law-enforcement officer has been injured or killed.(d) "Law-enforcement agency" means a government agency or any subunit thereof which performs the administration of criminal justice pursuant to statute or executive order, and which allocates a substantial part of its annual budget to the administration of criminal justice. For the purposes of this subchapter, such agencies shall include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) The Delaware State Police;(2) All law-enforcement agencies and police departments of any political subdivision of this State;(3) The Department of Correction; and(4) The Department of Justice.(e) "Law-enforcement officer" includes police officers, the Attorney General and the Attorney General's deputies, sheriffs and their regular deputies, agents of the State Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement, correctional officers, state fire marshals, municipal fire marshals that are graduates of a Delaware Police Academy which is accredited/authorized by the Police Officers Standards and Training Commission, sworn members of the City of Wilmington Fire Department who have graduated from a Delaware Police Academy which is authorized/accredited by the Police Officers Standards and Training Commission, environmental protection officers, enforcement agents of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, and constables. For purposes of this subchapter, "law-enforcement officer" also includes an employee of a federal governmental agency who is authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of, or the incarceration of any person for, any violation of law, and who has statutory powers of arrest. For purposes of this subchapter, sheriffs and their regular deputies shall not have any arrest authority. Amended by Laws 2023, ch. 149,s 8, eff. 8/7/2023. 77 Del. Laws, c. 469, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 266, § 7.;