(A) All full-time, part-time, and auxiliary police officers of the village shall be a high school graduate of GED equivalent and have received a diploma from an accredited high school or a GED certificate. In addition, all full-time, part-time and auxiliary officers shall have satisfactorily completed the Ohio Peace Officers Basic Training Program and shall be subject to all minimum standards as may be established by the State of Ohio or the Village of Dalton or its Police Department. Every officer, full-time, part-time and auxiliary, shall be required to attend any and all training prescribed by the Dalton Village Police Department. Further, each full-time police officer shall be required to submit to a physical examination and shall obtain written certification from the examining physician that the individual is physically capable of performing as a police officer. Also, each full-time and part-time officer shall be required to submit to physiological examination. Said examinations shall be paid for by the village and shall be performed not more than 60 days prior to appointment. After appointment, the auxiliary police officers shall have the same powers conferred by law as those granted police officers.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) above, the Auxiliary Administrative Officer and school crossing guards shall be exempt from the above requirements, except that the Auxiliary Administrative Officer and school crossing guards shall be required to attend any and all training prescribed by the Village Police Department for that position. Further, because the position of Auxiliary Administrative Officer is intended to be purely administrative in nature, no arrest or other like powers shall be conferred upon the Auxiliary Administrative Officer nor shall the Auxiliary Administrative Officer carry a firearm and likewise for the school crossing guards.
(Prior Code, § 34.23) (Ord. 5-00, passed 6-12-2000; Ord. 23-07, passed 5-9-2023)