(A) Establishment of Reserve Force. There shall be a force of police reserve officers which shall assist the Town Marshal and his or her deputies, as provided for by the Department’s rule. There are three levels of the reserve program, i.e., Auxiliary, Reserve Class 2, and Reserve Class 1.
(B) Appointment. Reserve officers shall be appointed by the Town Marshal, as provided by I.C. 36-8-3-20. The Town Marshal may establish rules, procedures, and requirements for the application and hiring of reserve officers.
(C) Not Department members; authority. Reserve officers are not members of the Police Department, but they have all of the same police powers as regular officers, except as limited by this section or the Department’s rules. The Department, through the Town Marshal, may adopt rules that limit the authority of reserve officers. In addition to the other limitations imposed by the Town Marshal, a reserve officer shall not have the authority to make an arrest, conduct a search or a seizure of a person or property, or carry a badge or firearm unless and until he or she successfully completes a pre-basic course under I.C. 5-2-1-9(f).
(D) Compensation. Reserve officers are volunteers and will receive no wages or salaries. To the extent money is appropriated by the Town Council, reserve officers may receive:
(1) A uniform allowance; and
(2) Compensation for time lost from other employment because of court appearances.
(E) No pension. Reserve officers are not eligible for any pension or retirement benefits.
(F) Training. A reserve officer may not be appointed to the Department until completing the training and probationary period specified by the Department’s rules. In addition, reserve officers must also complete the mandatory in-service training established by the State Law Enforcement Training Board, unless that Board waives such in-service training for any particular officer, and any other training deemed necessary by the Town Marshal.
(G) Injury benefits.
(1) Pursuant to I.C. 36-8-3-22, the town shall provide for a reserve officer who is injured or contracts an illness in the course of or as the result of performing duties as police reserve officer, without charge to the officer, the physician, surgical, hospital, and nursing services and supplies the physician or surgeon in charge determines necessary. The town may satisfy these obligations, and may seek recovery or reimbursement from a responsible third party of any amounts paid for care described in this section, as provided in I.C. 36-8-3-22 or as otherwise allowed by law.
(2) Pursuant to I.C. 36-8-3-23, if a police reserve officer is unable to pursue the officer’s usual vocation as the result of an injury or illness occurring in the course of or as the result of performing duties as police reserve officer, the town shall pay such officer a weekly amount that may not be less than the state’s minimum wage and computed on the basis of a 40-hour week, for the lesser of:
(a) The period the officer is unable to pursue his or her usual vocation; or
(b) Two-hundred-sixty weeks.
(Ord. 2018-06, passed - -)