(A) The Board of Public Works and Safety of the city is authorized to appoint special police officers to act as an auxiliary police force. The members of the auxiliary police force shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the Chief of Police of the city, and they shall be subject to removal or discharge at any time by the Board of Public Works and Safety, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Police.
(B) (1) The Chief of Police of the city is made immediate commanding officer of the auxiliary police force, with power to appoint such subordinate officers as he or she deems suitable and necessary.
(2) The Board of Public Works and Safety is further directed to require each member, before admission to the auxiliary police force, to sign and swear to an application setting forth his or her age, description, residence, occupation and a release by which the applicant releases the city from all right of action for damages from personal injury and from all loss, costs, expense and liability, incurred either directly or indirectly through his or her work as a member of the auxiliary police force, and such other information as the Board shall deem desirable.
(3) Each member of the auxiliary police force shall serve under the direction of the Chief of Police and his or her subordinate officers and is required to obey his or her directions.
(C) (1) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to furnish each member of the auxiliary police force with a membership card, but no member of the auxiliary police force shall be construed to be an employee of the city.
(2) Members of the auxiliary police force shall act without compensation; provided that, the Board of Public Works and Safety may, in its discretion, pay compensation to any member or members of such auxiliary police force as the Board may deem advisable.
(D) Each member of the auxiliary police force, before admission, shall take and subscribe to the same oath administered to regular police officers.
(Prior Code, § 33.10)
Statutory reference:
Special fire and police officers, see I.C. 36-8-3-7