131.035 PRIVATE POLICE OFFICERS.

   (a)   Any employee who is engaged in the protection of employers' property in the regular course of employment and who bears unconcealed firearms in the performance of these duties may be commissioned by the Chief of Police with the approval of the City Manager as a private police officer with the power and authority of a City police officer to arrest for violation of laws and ordinances while performing plant protection duties on the employer's property if the criteria in the following subsections (a)(1) to (3) hereof are met:

      (1)   Basic training. No person shall be issued a commission as a private police officer without certification of successful completion of the basic training program required by the Police Officers Training Council for private security officers.

      (2)    Liability insurance. No person shall be issued a commission as a private police officer unless evidence of liability insurance coverage in the minimum amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is provided to the City Manager.

      (3)    The private police officer applicant shall not have been convicted of a felony or crime of moral turpitude within the past ten years.

   (b)    Private police officers shall wear uniforms and badges in the performance of their duties that may be readily distinguished from the uniform and badges of the Hamilton Police Division.

   (c)    Private police officers shall not be subject to any regulation or control by the City except as specifically provided herein.

   (d)    The Chief of Police may revoke a private police officer's commission at any time for good cause.

   (e)    Penalty. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

(Ord. 86-4-25. Passed 4-23-86.)