(a) All private police officers shall be under the control and direction of the Chief of Police and shall be subject to his or her orders and to all such rules as the Director of Public Safety may from time to time prescribe.
(b) Private police officers shall wear only the type of badge and uniform which has been approved by the Director of Public Safety.
(c) A private police officer shall, when on duty, carry on his or her person the private police officer commission card issued to him or her by the Mayor, which card shall be authority for wearing the approved private police officer badge and uniform.
(d) A private police officer may carry firearms and may, when approved by the Director of Public Safety, carry a concealed weapon within the limits of the territory set forth on his or her private police officers commission card and while traveling to and from that territory from his or her place of residence. No approval to carry a concealed weapon shall appear on any private police officer commission card.
(e) A private police officer shall upon request of any regular member of the Police Department, surrender his or her commission card and badge to such member, who will forward the same to the office of the Director of Public Safety with a report of the reasons for such action.
(f) All duly and regularly appointed private police officers shall possess the authority and privileges of private police officers. They will exercise this authority and privileges only within the limits of the territory as set forth on their private police officer commission card or when their services elsewhere are requested by a regular police officer of the city.
(g) All private police officers are responsible for the full enforcement of all state and federal laws and the ordinances of the city. This responsibility is restricted to the limits of their territory.
(h) All private police officers are at all times subject, as are all other citizens, to all state and federal laws and all ordinances of the city.
(i) Private police officers must at all times go to the aid of a regular member of the Police Department, when such member is in trouble and stress, and the need for aid is readily seen.
(j) The private police officer authority and the associated private police officer badge are to be used only by the individual to whom issued and are not transferable at any time.
(k) Private police officers will volunteer to the office of the Chief of Police all information they may have or receive relative to any offense or offenders of the law.
(l) (1) All private police officers shall make complete application for their new commission card within 30 days prior to the expiration date of their current commission card. If the private police officer commission card is not renewed prior to the expiration date, all the authority the person possessed by virtue of the private police commission card terminates.
(2) In all cases of resignation or dismissal from service which is provided an employer by virtue of the private police officer commission card, the commission card shall be returned to the office of the Director of Public Safety with such date and reason for either resignation or dismissal furnished therewith.
(m) All private police officers who have received employment by virtue of having first been commissioned as a private police officer are expected to fulfill their obligations to their employer in a loyal and faithful manner at all times to the best of their knowledge and ability, unless in conflict with these rules and regulations, and such orders as may be given by regular members of the Police Department.
(n) No private police officer under any circumstances will receive from the city any money or fees or salary for services of any nature rendered, as a result of the issuance of private police officer powers, or for the exercise of private police officer powers in his or her duties or obligations as a private police officer.
(o) If for any unforeseen reason a private police officer is notified to appear at the office of the Director of Public Safety or the Chief of Police, he or she shall do so immediately or at time designated to appear.
(p) No private police officer at any time shall gossip about the affairs of the Police Department or of his or her employer, nor shall he or she at any time divulge to anyone not concerned, any information which he or she may have and may be of value and to the interest of the Police Department.
(q) No private police officer shall, through vigorous solicitation, force his or her services upon any business owner who is unwilling to have such service performed for him or her, nor shall he or she use his or her commission card and private police powers for any other reason than that for which they are intended to be used.
(Ord. 7133, passed 3-21-1978)