(A) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to institute a policy to establish procedures governing the use of confidential funds to make expenditures for buy money and/or payments to informants. The Police Chief is further authorized and empowered to appropriate funds, in the manner authorized by state law, and to make expenditures for buy money and/or payments to informants, in support of its criminal investigations.
(B) A petty cash fund is hereby established and authorized for use by the Police Department to pay informants or for buy money. The petty cash fund procedures must be followed as authorized by I.C. 36-1-8-3. The Chief of Police is hereby designated as the custodian of the petty cash fund.
(C) A minimum documentation procedure, to record all expenditures made and appropriations received, must be followed, similar to either:
(1) Guidelines for the Expenditure of Confidential Funds, published by the U.S. Department of Criminal Justice; or
(2) Guidelines for Obtaining and Accounting for Confidential Funds Used in Support of Criminal Investigations, (Revised S,O.P. PR - INV-009), by the Indiana State Police Department.
(Ord. 4967, passed 5-1-2006)
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