The Mayor, by and with the consent of the City Council, shall appoint a number of regular police officers as may be necessary and may also appoint special police officers from time to time as exigencies arise. The City Police, whether regular or special, shall perform the duties and have the powers as are provided for by ordinance or by the laws of the state, including, but not limited to, Neb. RS 17-118, as amended or superseded. The City Police shall, in the discharge of their official duties, provide proper identification of their official capacity which the identification shall be otherwise legally required, have authority pursuant to this chapter to enter into any building, structure or premises under their jurisdiction for the purpose of making the searches and seizures as are legally permissible under the circumstances. The City Police shall have full power and authority to call upon any person, whenever necessary, to assist them in performing public duties and any person who willingly falls, neglects or refuses to render the assistance shall be guilty of a crime and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $100. Every city police officer shall be expected to be conversant and knowledgeable with the city and state laws. City police officers shall have the duty to file the complaints and reports as may be required by ordinance and by the laws of the state. Any city police officer who shall willfully fail, neglect or refuse to make an arrest or who shall willfully fail, neglect or refuse to make a complaint after an arrest is made shall be guilty of a crime and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $100. It shall be the duty of every city police officer making a lawful arrest to search all persons in the presence of some other person, whenever possible and to carefully keep and produce to the proper judicial official, upon trial, everything found upon the person or the prisoners. All personal effects thus taken from the prisoners shall be restored to them upon their release from custody following the disposition of the charges against them. Suitable uniforms and badges shall be furnished to the City Police by the city and any city police officer who shall lose or destroy the same shall be required to pay the replacement cost of the equipment. The City Council may, from time to time, provide the City Police with the uniforms, equipment and transportation as may be essential in the performance of their official duties. It shall be unlawful for the City Council to retain any city police officer in that position after he or she shall have been duly convicted of the willful violation of any law of the United States, the state or any ordinance of the city, except minor traffic violations. All city police officers appointed by the Mayor and the City Council shall be subject to removal as provided by the laws of the state, including, but not limited to, Neb. RS 17-107 and 25-21,147, as amended or superseded. See §§ 31.053 and 31.065 regarding the appointment and removal of police officers. In the event that any officer shall leave the City Police, he or she shall immediately deliver his or her badge to the City Police Chief.
(Prior Code, § 1-210)
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Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-107, 17-118, 17-124