(A) The agency shall perform emergency management functions as well as the responsibility for preventing, responding and mitigating threats to critical infrastructure or persons in the village as prescribed by state or Federal statute. It will act in concert with the State Emergency Management Agency and in accord with the National Incident Management System where applicable. The agency, in addition, shall perform functions outside the corporate limits as may be required pursuant to any mutual aid agreement or joint cooperation with any other party pursuant to the State Emergency Management Act or any other local, county, state, Federal or tribal agency.
(B) DHSEM auxiliary police officers shall not supplement members of the regular police department of any municipality in the performance of their assigned and normal duties, except as otherwise provided by municipal ordinance. DHSEM auxiliary police officers shall only be assigned to perform the following duties:
(1) To aid or direct traffic within the municipality as directed by the Chief of Police;
(2) To aid in control of natural or man-made disasters as directed by the Chief of Police;
(3) To aid in case of civil disorder as directed by the Chief of Police; and
(4) When it is impractical for members of the regular police department to perform those normal and regular police duties, however, the Chief of Police at his/her sole discretion may assign DHSEM auxiliary police officers to perform those normal and regular police duties.
(Ord. 18-06, passed 3-21-18)