(A) The following shall be conditions of employment required of all new employees of the Town Police Department.
(1) All new employees shall reside within 20 miles of the town limits of the town. Any new employee not so residing shall move to within seven miles of the town limits within one year after the date of his or her employment, and failure to do so shall be cause for discharge.
(2) All new employees must meet the minimum standards of the Law Enforcement Training Board, as amended and in effect from time to time, regarding acceptance of persons for law enforcement training. (The current regulations are found at 250 I.A.C. 1-3.)
(3) All new employees must successfully complete the Law Enforcement Academy’s pre-basic course before being employed by the Police Department. A person who has not successfully completed the Law Enforcement Academy’s pre-basic course will not be considered for employment by the Police Department.
(4) All new employees, who have not completed the Law Enforcement Academy’s basic course, will be on probation until they have completed the mandated requirements of the Law Enforcement Training Board. Failure to successfully complete the basic course shall be cause for discharge.
(5) All new employees shall undergo psychological testing.
(6) All potential new employees, after being offered employment, shall be given a pre-employment physical which shall include testing for drugs. Failure to successfully pass the pre-employment physical shall be cause for withdrawal of the offer of employment.
(7) All new employees that the town sends to the State Law Enforcement Academy to meet mandated basic training will be required to sign a four-year contract with the town.
(B) (1) The contract referred to in division (A)(7) above shall contain, among other items, the provisions of division (B)(2) below, if the town is required to send the new employee to the State Law Enforcement Academy’s 12-week basic class.
(2) If after attending the State Law Enforcement Academy, a new employee resigns his or her position or is discharged for cause, the contract will have the following penalties: the new employee will owe to the town three weeks’ pay for each year of the four-year contract he or she does not complete. (For a year partially not completed, the three week’s owed will be prorated.) The three weeks’ pay owed shall be calculated at the rate of the new employee’s then current weekly salary. The obligation shall be evidenced by a promissory note, with provisions for attorney’s fees and other standard provisions.
(3) The term
NEW EMPLOYEES, as used in this section, refers to sworn officers of the Town Police Department. It does not refer to any civilian employees of the Town Police Department.
(Ord. 1993-11, passed 12-14-1993; Ord. 1994-1, passed 1-11-1994; Ord. 1995-15, passed 11-14-1995; Ord. 2017-6, passed 2-28-2017)