A. The mayor shall appoint twenty-one auxiliary policemen, which number may be changed from time to time by ordinance adopted by at least a majority of the city council and each individual appointment shall be subject to advice and consent of the city council.
B. Auxiliary policemen shall not be members of the regular police department of the city.
C. Auxiliary policemen shall not supplement members of the regular police department of the city in the performance of their assigned and normal duties, except as otherwise provided.
D. Auxiliary policemen shall only be assigned to perform the following duties:
1. To aid or direct traffic within the city;
2. To aid in the control of natural or manmade disasters;
3. To aid, in case of civil disorder, as directed by the chief of police;
4. In cases which render it impractical for members of the regular police department to perform the normal and regular police duties, the chief of police of the regular police department, with the written consent of the mayor, may assign auxiliary policemen to perform such normal and regular police duties.
E. Auxiliary policemen shall not wear uniforms, or parts thereof, or any identification symbol, which might be confused with that of members of the regular police department.
F. Auxiliary policemen shall, at all times, during the performance of their duties, be subject to the direction and control of the chief of police.
G. Auxiliary policemen shall not carry firearms, except with the permission of the chief of police, who shall have the prior authorization from the mayor; and unless they are in uniform and in the performance of their duties.
H. Auxiliary policemen, when on duty, shall not be conservators of the peace and shall not have the powers as specified in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3.1-15-25.
I. Auxiliary policemen shall serve without pay from the city.
J. Prior to entering upon any of their duties as auxiliary policemen, each auxiliary policeman shall have received a course of training in the use of weapons and other police procedures as shall be appropriate in the exercise of the powers conferred upon them under this chapter, which course of training and study shall be reduced to writing and shall be approved by the city council.
K. Auxiliary policemen need not be residents of the city.
L. Prior to the appointment of any auxiliary policeman, his fingerprints shall be taken, and examination made thereof, and no person shall be appointed as such auxiliary policeman if he has been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude.
M. The term of the appointment shall not exceed one calendar year from the date of appointment.
N. Auxiliary policemen shall take a like oath to that of a regular policeman.
O. The term "policeman" as used elsewhere in this code does not include "auxiliary policeman."
P. The following training, as prescribed in the Law and Order Training Manuals 10.1A and 10.1B, must be successfully completed by all Hoopeston auxiliary police prior to the issuance of a commission:
1. Roll of the auxiliary policeman 1 hour
2. Department rules and regulations 1 hour
3. Techniques of traffic control 3 hours
4. Techniques of crowd control 3 hours
5. Protection of property and prevention of looting 2 hours
6. Protection against the radiation hazard 2 hours
7. Law and arrest, search and seizure 3 hours
8. Basic concepts about criminal law 1 hour
9. Collection, identification and preservation of evidence 2 hours
10. Detention procedures 2 hours
11. Field notetaking and report writing 2 hours
12. Interviews, interrogation and rules of evidence 2 hours
13. Firearms' care, maintenance and familiarization 2 hours
14. Human relations 2 hours
15. Police communications 3 hours
16. Subversion, espionage, sabotage, and explosive ordnance reconnaissance 2 hours
17. Geography of the area 1 hour
18. Patrol 2 hours
19. On-the-job patrol duty 2 hours
20. Individual defensive techniques 2 hours
21. Firearms training 8 hours
22. Supervised, on-the-job training with civil defense police 100 hours.
(Prior code § 6.123). (Ord. 2007-5, 2007).