(a) The city council hereby provides for the establishment, training, equipping and maintenance of a volunteer police reserve force (the “reserve force”).
(b) The qualifications and standards of training required of the members of the reserve force shall be consistent with those qualifications and standards of training promulgated by the Texas commission on law enforcement officer standards and training for reserve peace officers.
(c) The chief of police shall appoint the members of the reserve force. Members shall serve at the chief’s discretion and without compensation.
(d) The chief of police may call any or all members of the reserve force into service at any time the chief considers it necessary to have additional officers to preserve the peace and enforce the law.
(e) Members of the reserve force shall serve as peace officers during the actual discharge of their official duties.
(f) An appointment to the reserve force must be approved by the city council before the person appointed may carry a weapon or otherwise act as a peace officer. After the appointment is approved, the person appointed may carry a weapon only when authorized to do so by the chief of police and only when discharging official duties as a peace officer.
(g) Reserve police officers may act only in a supplementary capacity to the regular police force and may not assume the full-time duties of regular police officers without complying with the requirements for regular police officers.
(1964 Code, § 29A-14) (Ord. 7452, § 1, passed 12-20-1976; Ord. 8433, § 1, passed 9-19-1981; Ord. 13898, § 1, passed 8-17-1999)