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Procedures for Handling Governmental Dignitaries and Immunity Levels

• Different governmental positions have different levels of immunity, ranging from complete immunity for serious crimes to special processing for traffic violations.
• Diplomatic immunity is defined as the freedom from local jurisdiction accorded to duly accredited diplomatic officers.
• Diplomatic officers include ambassadors, ministers, and other diplomatic titles, along with their families, staff, and servants who are not nationals of or permanently reside in the state.
• Consular officers include consuls-general, deputy consuls-general, consuls, and vice consuls of a foreign government, but do not include their families, staff, and servants.
• Honorary consuls are appointed positions that may have an identification card from the State Department and are not immune from civil and criminal jurisdiction, citations, detention, or arrest, except as to official acts performed in the exercise of their consular functions.
• Members of the United States Congress and state legislators are not immune from civil and criminal jurisdiction, citations, detention, or arrest.
• Military personnel on valid leave or active-duty status, in their personal or military vehicles, are not immune from civil and criminal jurisdiction, traffic citations, detention, or arrest.
• Diplomatic officers, their families, staff, and servants cannot be given a citation, detained, or arrested except for the commission of a grave crime.
• Consular officers cannot be arrested or detained for trial except for the commission of a grave crime and pursuant to a decision by the competent judicial authority.
• Honorary consular officers, family members, staff members, and servants cannot claim immunity except as to official acts performed in the exercise of their consular functions.
• When governmental dignitaries are involved in a serious traffic collision and are either killed or injured to the extent that they require hospitalization, their governmental agency or embassy will be notified.
• Foreign nationals detained or arrested by Port St. Lucie Police Department personnel shall be promptly brought to the St. Lucie County Jail, and verification of their claim and notification to the appropriate consular office will be made by correctional staff.

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