Law enforcement personnel who are participants in any program coordinated and administered by the Georgia Organized Crime Prevention Council, which program provides for the temporary assignment or loan of local law enforcement personnel to other local law enforcement agencies for the purpose of such law enforcement officers serving as undercover agents in criminal investigations or in any other manner or capacity assisting such local agencies in criminal investigations, may be provided protection against personal liability for damages sustained by third parties and arising out of the performance of such law enforcement personnel's duties while serving on such temporary assignment or loan. The commissioner of administrative services shall prescribe the terms and conditions under which such personnel may be covered by any liability insurance policy or contract of indemnity or other like or similar programs administered by the commissioner pursuant to this article to provide such protection, provided that persons employed by the district attorneys of the state, irrespective of the source of the funds used to pay such persons, shall be allowed to purchase policies of liability insurance and contracts of indemnity insurance and for the purpose of this article shall be considered to be state employees.