(A) The Chief of Police may dismiss, suspend or invoke disciplinary actions on any member of the Reserve police officers unit for violations of Departmental rules, regulations, policies or procedures. He or she shall also have the right to dismiss, suspend or invoke disciplinary action for any violations of state code or city ordinances. Members can be dismissed without cause for conduct unbecoming a police officer.
(B) Every member of the city’s Police Reserve Officers Unit shall be subject to reprimand, suspension or dismissal according to the nature of the offense for any of the causes hereinafter set out or for violations of any of the other rules, regulations, policies, procedures or orders of the Chief of Police not extant, or that may hereafter be issued:
(1) Intoxication, immoral conduct, cowardice or neglect of duty, violation of any criminal law, disobedience of orders, insubordination or disrespect towards his or her superiors, using coarse, profane or insolent language while on duty, drinking any kind of intoxicating liquor or beer while on duty or any other conduct unbecoming an officer or employee of the Department;
(2) Gossiping about members of the Department or any officer of the city or publicly criticizing them or communicating or giving out Departmental information or neglecting to appear neat and clean at all times in public or neglecting to wear the official badge of office or refusing to give the number of his or her badge when requested by a responsible citizen or neglecting to pay just indebtedness incurred while in service or failure to live with and support his or her family without cause;
(3) Neglect to turn over all property taken from a prisoner or to report any member of the Department guilty of any violation of rules, ordinances or laws;
(4) Receiving or accepting any fee, reward, bribe or gift of any kind from any person arrested, or from any friend in his or her behalf while in custody or after his or her discharge, or from any person for services rendered as a member of the police officers Reserve unit of the Department without the consent and permission of the Chief of Police;
(5) Communicating any information which may aid a person to escape arrest or to delay the apprehension of a criminal or secure the removal of stolen or embezzled property or money;
(6) Each Reserve officer in his or her conduct and deportment must be quiet, civil and orderly. In the performance of duty, he or she must maintain decorum and attention, command of temper, patience and discretion, but at the same time be required, if necessary, to act with firmness and sufficient energy to perform his or her duties;
(7) Batons, PR-24s or ASPs must be used only in case of defense or of forcible or violent resistance to officers in discharge of their duties. Each member of the Reserves shall be certified on the baton, PR-24 or ASP in order to carry one. Weapons shall be used only when the officer reasonably believes that such force is necessary to protect his or her life or that of another, that the person is known to have committed forcible felony, that the officer made a reasonable attempt to make known his or her identity and intent to arrest, that the officer’s identity and intent in his or her mind has been made known to the person to be arrested, that all other methods of apprehension have been exhausted, and the officer believes in his or her own mind that the discharge of his or her weapon may be done without substantial risk of injury to innocent persons;
(8) No Reserve officer shall directly or indirectly interest himself or herself or interfere in any manner whatever in the employment of any attorney to aid in the defense of persons arrested or accused; and
(9) No officer shall directly or indirectly be concerned in making any compromise or arrangement between thieves or other criminals or other persons who suffered by their acts, with a view to permit the criminal to escape the penalties provided by law, and any Reserve officer who has any knowledge thereof and fails to give information to his or her superior officer shall be subject to immediate dismissal.
(Ord. C-279, passed 6-17-1997)