A. Appointment: The village administrator may, with the advice and consent of the village board of trustees, appoint auxiliary police officers in such number as the village administrator shall from time to time deem necessary.
B. Supervisory Authority: Such 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.
C. Duties: Such auxiliary police officers shall not be members of the regular police department. Such auxiliary police officers shall not supplement members of the regular police department in the performance of their assigned and normal duties, except as otherwise provided herein. Such auxiliary police officers shall only be assigned to perform the following duties:
1. To aid or direct traffic.
2. To aid in control of natural or manmade disasters.
3. To aid in case of civil disorder as directed by the chief of police; provided, that 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 is hereby authorized to assign auxiliary police officers to perform such normal and regular police duties.
D. Identification: Identification symbols worn by such auxiliary police officers shall be different and distinct from those used by members of the regular police department.
E. Firearms: Such auxiliary police officers shall not carry firearms except with the permission of the chief of police, and while in uniform and in the performance of their duties.
F. Conservators Of The Peace: Such auxiliary police officers when on duty shall also be conservators of the peace and shall have the powers as specified in 65 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3.1-15-25.
G. Training: Auxiliary police officers, prior to entering upon any of their duties, shall receive 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 section, which training and course of study shall be determined and provided by the chief of police.
H. Fingerprinting; Background Check: Prior to the appointment of any auxiliary police officer, fingerprints shall be taken, and no person shall be appointed as such auxiliary police officer if he has been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude. (1988 Code § 7-1A-4)