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(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Medical Service shall establish and charge a fee for each of the following ambulance services:
(1) Basic Life Support;
(2) Advanced Life Support; and
(3) Advanced Life Support II.
(b) The Commissioner may adjust, establish and charge additional fees for other services rendered, according to federal and State reimbursement fee schedules, not to exceed the City’s cost.
(c) Any fee established under this section shall be published in the City Record and become effective ten (10) days following the date first published, or at such later date as provided by the Commissioner of Emergency Medical Service. All members of City Council shall be notified of any changes to fees established under this section.
(Ord. No. 600-10. Passed 6-7-10, eff. 6-11-10)
No member of the Division of Police or the Division of Fire shall wear any uniform or part thereof, or any badge or other insignia which is prescribed by the Director of Public Safety as the official uniform or equipment for such members of the police and fire forces, within five hundred (500) feet of any polling place during the time of voting at any election in the City, except for the purpose of voting at his or her assigned polling place or while performing his or her official duties.
(Ord. No. 628-76. Passed 5-24-76, eff. 5-29-76)
(a) The Director of Public Safety shall, on request of the responsible agent, authorize the direct connection of a local fire protective signaling system with the Municipal Fire Division signal system to transmit an alarm from hospitals, and nursing homes located within the City.
(b) Cost of equipment, installation and maintenance thereof required for direct connection shall be borne by the recipient of the Municipal fire alarm service, except that the Division of Fire shall install and maintain at its expense a receiving console.
(Ord. No. 1017-76. Passed 7-19-76, eff. 7-21-76)
Each member of the uniform ranks in the Division of Police shall be required to undergo a complete and thorough physical examination by the police surgeon at least once every year. The police surgeon is required to keep a written record of the results of his or her examination and to report to the Director of Public Safety any physical or mental disabilities, or impairments, which in his or her professional medical opinion, prevent any member of the uniform ranks from performing his or her assigned tasks, or which might in all probability tend to cause any such member to injure himself, herself or others or otherwise cause him or her to become physically or mentally disabled. The police surgeon may refer members of the Division of Police to such medical specialists whom in his or her opinion are necessary to determine the physical and mental capabilities of such members.
The Director of Public Safety shall take appropriate action in cases of physical or mental disability or impairment, as is within his or her authority and according to his or her lawful duty.
(Ord. No. 968-77. Passed 6-27-77, eff. 6-30-77)
There is hereby authorized and established an annual in-service training program within the Police Academy, Division of Police, containing a maximum forty (40) hours curricula, reflecting the activities and duties relating to each separate rank within the Division of Police.
The curricula and instruction shall be established by experts in their respective fields, outside of the ranks of the Division of Police, and may include private guest lecturers and instructors. Such curricula may also contain any printed, graphic or electrically produced material.
The curricula and instruction, within each respective rank, shall be free of cultural, racial, and sexual bias and shall be job-related.
In addition, such course instruction shall include, but not limited to, such subjects as community relations, individual and group psychology, crowd control, race relations, proper procedures in evidence gathering and preservation, basic legal instruction regarding constitutional law and laws relating to apprehension and arrest of persons and the lawful obtaining of evidence, and such other job-related skill training and skill upgrading in basic police crime prevention and detection techniques, utilizing the latest available and most effective police science techniques.
Whenever possible, such curricula and instruction shall include innovative pilot projects and programs, approved by the Director of Public Safety, with emphasis in the areas of crime prevention, and detection, including but not limited to the use of police personnel in plain clothes or undercover capacities, especially in the areas of violent crimes against the person and all drug related offenses.
Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the establishment of any program of higher education for police personnel with any recognized institution of higher learning.
(Ord. No. 1126-75. Passed 7-25-77, eff. 8-1-77)
The Department of Public Safety shall keep records, according to rank for all police personnel, indicating proper attendance as required in Section 135.37 in such annual in-service training program. Such program as established in Section 135.37 may be supplemental to the requirements of the peace officers training council, or may be submitted to the peace officers training council for its approval, under RC Chapter 109.
(Ord. No. 1126-75. Passed 7-25-77, eff. 8-1-77)
There is hereby established, within the office of the Director of Public Safety a position to be known as Personnel Counselor. It shall be the duty of such Personnel Counselor to work with the Civil Service Commission in setting up standards and criteria for the measurement and rating of on the job performance of each uniformed member of the Division of Police, together with a psychological evaluation of the individual’s ability to perform the tasks presently assigned to him or her.
In addition, such Personnel Counselor shall personally interview each member of the uniform ranks, at least once in every two (2) year period, to evaluate the personal attitudes, difficulties and strengths of such personnel, so as to offer advice and assistance to such personnel as relates to his or her on- the-job performance and to make recommendations to the Director of Public Safety as to the proper job assignment of such personnel, to maximize the proper utilization of manpower in the Division of Police.
The Personnel Counselor shall keep written records of his or her evaluations and reports, which records shall be kept confidential and not open to public inspection; provided however such information as is obtained by such Personnel Counselor may be utilized in any authorized study or report, without using the name of any individual member of the Division of Police.
The Personnel Counselor may be a person assigned from the uniformed ranks or outside of the uniform ranks, but shall possess at least an undergraduate degree, from a recognized college or university, in the field of psychology or personnel psychology. The status within the uniform ranks, if appointed from the uniform ranks to the position of Personnel Counselor, and while serving therein, shall remain unchanged and no vacancy shall accrue to the uniform ranks thereby. Notwithstanding the compensation fixed by this section, the Personnel Counselor shall not acquire any rights to promotion other than such rights to promotion which apply to the rank held at the time of appointment as Personnel Counselor.
The annual compensation to be fixed by the Director of Public Safety shall be within the schedule of compensation hereby established:
Minimum
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Maximum
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Personnel Counselor | $18,000.00 | $21,000.00 |
(Ord. No. 1126-75. Passed 7-25-77, eff. 8-1-77)
In carrying out and implementing the provisions of Section 135.37, the Director of Public Safety shall actively seek out, utilize and establish a working plan and program with any local college or university in establishing an in-service training program and also to further the education of members of the uniform ranks in the Division of Police either by setting up new or utilizing existing programs of education, leading to courses in or a degree in a field of education relating directly or indirectly to police work. For purposes of such continuing and further education, the Director of Public Safety may rely on recommendations of the Personnel Counselor as to those members of the Division of Police who would reasonably appear to benefit from a program of continuing or further education at local colleges or universities, beyond the level of in-service training programs. Provided, however, that no member of the uniform ranks of the Division of Police shall be discriminated against in selection as a candidate for continuing or further education, beyond the in-service training program, at a local college or university on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, ethnic group or Vietnam-era or disabled veteran status.
(Ord. No. 1445-13. Passed 11-17-14, eff. 11-19-14)
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