The Police Department shall consist of a Chief of Police and such other officers, patrolmen, and personnel as the Director of Public Safety shall deem advisable. The Chief of Police and all officers, patrolmen, and personnel shall be appointed by the Director of Public Safety, subject to approval of the Manager and Council, and when applicable the civil service provisions of this Charter. As otherwise more fully set out in the Charter, at the time the civil service provisions of this Charter go into effect, all members of the Police Department who have served their six (6) months probationary period and an additional period of not less than ninety (90) days, shall be automatically placed under the applicable civil service provisions in the appropriate category and classification, without being required to take an examination for the position held at that time. Until such time as the civil service provisions of this Charter are put into effect, all members of the Police Department shall have tenure in accordance with the applicable statutes of the Revised Code of Ohio, now or hereinafter in effect concerning tenure of police officers in a village, and the removal of any police officer during this period shall be accomplished in accordance with the applicable statutes of the Revised Code of Ohio concerned with the removal of police officers in a village, provided that the Village Manager, rather than the Mayor, shall bear the responsibility of filing with the Council the written charges against such police officer.
(Amended Nov. 2, 1976)