(a) Classified service. The Police Department shall be composed of a total of not more than 74 officers under the classified civil service. Of this number, there shall be not more than one Chief of Police, one Captain, five Lieutenants, 14 Sergeants and 52 patrol officers, such 14 Sergeants positions to be authorized only until such time as vacancies arise within the Police Department which would absorb same, until the number of Sergeants in the Department is re-established at a maximum of 12.
(b) Temporary increases. In addition to the total number of officers authorized in division (a) above, temporary increases in this authorized strength of not to exceed three officers of any rank or grade, are permitted when in anticipation of an impending resignation or retirement, it is in the best interests of the city that an immediate appointment be made to fill the anticipated vacancy. Such temporary increases in departmental strength shall not exceed 90 days.
(c) Unclassified service. In addition to the foregoing employees under classified civil service, there shall be employees of the Police Department who shall be in the unclassified service and who shall not exceed 30 special police commission officers, ten civilian officer personnel, 25 traffic guards, one youth coordinator, one secretary, one stenographer, two clerks, six matrons, one range superintendent, one mechanic, one parking meter foreman, 12 community service officers and ten additional laborers, mechanics and parking meter attendants.
(d) Grades.
(1) The regular patrol officers shall be divided into first, second and third grades, as follows.
A. The first grade shall include all regular patrol officers who have continuously served in the Department two or more full years.
B. The second grade shall include all the regular patrol officers who have continuously served in the Department more than one year but less than two years.
C. The third grade shall include only regular patrol officers who have continuously served in the Department less than one year.
(2) When, by reason of continuous service, a patrol officer is eligible for advancement from a lower to a higher grade, there shall be no increase in his or her salary until he or she has been duly advanced by the Mayor.
(e) Temporary special duties. A police officer assigned temporary special duties may be granted a temporary increase in pay by the Mayor while assigned to such special duties, subject to the limitations of the salary ordinance affecting the rank held by such police officer.
(f) Temporary patrol officers. In addition to the regular patrol officers herein provided for, the Mayor may, in the event of strikes, riots or other emergencies, appoint not to exceed 30 temporary patrol officers, who shall serve not longer than 90 days. Such temporary patrol officers shall not be subject to civil service rules of appointment, nor be under civil service, nor shall they be entitled to participate in the Police and Firefighters’s Disability and Pension Fund.
(Ord. 5856, passed 11-28-1967; Ord. 7624, passed 3-15-1983; Ord. 7846, passed 9-30-1986)