The Juvenile Officer shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Chief of Police of the city and further shall be subject to executive directives of the office of the Mayor of the city. He or she shall be subject to 24-hour call, but during off-duty hours shall be called only when necessary to process a juvenile offender. Interrogation of juvenile offenders shall not in itself be considered as necessary in regard to this provision concerning off-duty call. The Juvenile Officer, as to the detention of a juvenile subject, shall have such authority as may be conferred upon him or her by the Juvenile Court Act, being 705 ILCS 405.
(1960 Code, § 3.32) (Ord. 2640, passed - -; Ord. 2877, passed - -)