PA: Collective knowledge and RS doesn’t require the officer with knowledge actually communicate it to the others

Collective knowledge and reasonable suspicion doesn’t require the officer with knowledge actually communicate it to the others. “It is entirely permissible for an officer to engage in the investigation of a suspect based on the observations of another officer even when the officer conducting the investigation has not been supplied with the specific facts needed to support the seizure; however, the officer who made the observations must have the necessary facts to support the interdiction. This precept flows from the realities of police investigation, which often relies upon the cooperation of many police officers.” Commonwealth v. Smith, 2017 PA Super 318, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 785 (Oct. 10, 2017).