(A) Auxiliary police officers shall not be members of the regular Police Department. Auxiliary police officers shall not supplement members of the regular police department of any municipality in the performance of their assigned and normal duties, except as otherwise provided in ILCS Ch. 50, Act 5, § 3.1-30-20.
(1) Auxiliary police officers shall only be assigned to perform the following duties in a municipality:
(a) To aid or direct traffic within the municipality.
(b) To aid in control of natural or man-made disasters.
(c) To aid in case of civil disorder as directed by the Chief of Police.
(2) However, when Grayville's full-time and part-time police officers are unable to perform their normal and regular police duties, the Chief of Police, with the prior consent of the Mayor, may assign auxiliary police officers to perform those normal and regular police duties.
(3) Identification symbols worn by auxiliary police officers shall be different and distinct from those used by members of the regular Police Department.
(4) Auxiliary police officers shall at all times during the performance of their duties, be subject to the direction and control of the Chief of Police. Auxiliary police officers shall not carry firearms, except with the permission of the Chief of Police, while in uniform, and in the performance of their duties.
(5) Auxiliary police officers for the city shall be appointed as "non-conservator of the peace" officers. Thus, such auxiliary officers shall lack the power, unless otherwise authorized by this section: to arrest or cause to be arrested, with or without process, all persons who break the peace or are found violating any municipal ordinance or any criminal law of the state; to commit arrested persons for examination; if necessary, to detain arrested persons in custody overnight or Sunday in any safe place or until they can be brought before the proper court; and to exercise all the other powers as conservators of the peace prescribed by the corporate authorities of this municipality.
(B) Auxiliary police officers, before entering upon any of their duties, shall receive a course of training in the use of weapons and other police procedures appropriate for the exercise of the powers conferred upon them under this code.
(C) The training and course of study shall be determined and provided by the corporate authorities of the municipality employing auxiliary police officers.
(D) The municipal authorities may require that all auxiliary police officers be residents of the municipality served by them.
(E) The Board of Commissioners, in adopting this section, acknowledge and accept the Statement of Policy attached to Ordinance No. 725 and incorporated by reference herein.
(Ord. 725, passed 5-11-09)