(a) The Police Chief is hereby authorized and directed to establish a Crime Prevention Bureau within the Police Department which shall be operated under the day to day supervision of the Chief of the Department. The person in charge of the Bureau shall be referred to and known as the Crime Prevention Officer and shall be designated on the basis of training, experience and other qualifications related to crime prevention. The Chief may designate such other officers and members of the Department as he may, from time to time deem necessary or appropriate, as crime prevention officers for duties incident to the operation of the Bureau.
(b) The duties of the Bureau, on behalf of the City and of all residents, shall include the following:
(1) To develop methods and systems for the prevention of crime;
(2) To conduct and implement education programs and activities designed to advise, recommend and assist the general public of and in measures which may be taken to assist in the prevention of crime or assist in the solution of crime;
(3) To advise all persons upon request relative to home and personal security;
(4) To advise all residents, apartment owners and tenants, and business owners and tenants relative to the installation and maintenance of security systems, alarms, locks, lighting and other safeguards;
(5) To review plans for the construction of all structures within the City to ascertain hazards relating to crime prevention and to suggest a means to cause the elimination thereof as may be required by ordinance or State law;
(6) To review the investigation and circumstances of all crimes in order to evaluate crime prevention measures and devices which may be established in the future and determine the feasibility and propriety of existing crime prevention measures and devices;
(7) To advise other members of the Police Department, not in the Bureau, relative to various crime prevention practices and measures;
(8) To establish procedures for the security and transportation of sums of money and other valuables;
(9) To establish procedures for the security of public officials and other dignitaries while in the City;
(10) To coordinate neighborhood block watch, park patrol and neighborhood patrol programs within the guidelines as established by the Police Chief; and
(11) To enforce all ordinances of the City relative to crime prevention.
The Bureau shall have such powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred and imposed from time to time by law. This delegation of duty shall not relieve any other division, department, officer or employee of the City of any power or duty conferred by law or ordinance.
(c) The members of the Bureau may, at all reasonable hours with the consent of the owner, enter any building or premises within their jurisdiction for the purpose of inspecting same to ascertain whether there exists any hazard to crime prevention which is required to be corrected by law or ordinance. (Ord. 91-101. Passed 12-2-91.)