(a) Badges.
(1) Each patrol service permittee shall issue a patrol officer’s badge to each of its patrolmen. Every patrol officer shall wear the badge while acting as a patrol officer and shall wear no other badge of any kind, character or description.
(2) The permittee shall not sell, or permit the sale of, any patrol officer’s badge or of any badge of a design that is the same as, or so similar to, the patrol officer’s badge so that the buyer thereof would be mistaken for a patrol officer employed by the licensee when in fact he or she is not.
(b) False Identification.
(1) No patrol officer shall wear any uniform which is an imitation of, or can be readily mistaken for, an official sheriff’s uniform or an official uniform of the police department of any city within the county, or an official uniform of any state officer, nor shall the words “POLICE” OR “SHERIFF” appear on any badge, emblem, or uniform worn by such patrol officer.
(2) No patrol officer shall assume or use a rank or title identical, or similar, to any rank or title used by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department or by any police department within the county.
(3) No patrol service shall use, bestow or permit any patrol officer to assume or use any rank or title identical, or similar, to any rank or title used by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department or by a police department within the county.
(c) Motor Vehicle Markings. Motor vehicles used by a patrol service or patrol officer shall not bear markings or insignia that resemble the markings or insignia on official Los Angeles County sheriff’s department or police department motor vehicles, nor shall the words “POLICE” or “SHERIFF” appear on such markings or insignia.
(d) Conduct.
(1) An operator, partner, agent or patrol officer shall not, either by himself or herself or through the action of another, harass, annoy or commit a nuisance against or injure the property, or unnecessarily enter or otherwise trespass upon the property of any person whose property the private patrol service or private patrol officer is not employed to protect.
(2) All complaints regarding the activities of a patrol service or of a patrol officer employed by such service shall be investigated by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department. Reports of such complaints shall be held in the files of the sheriff for a period of two years and shall be subject to inspection by the city manager, the director, or the city council at all times.
(e) List of Customers. Each patrol service or patrol officer shall keep a list of all customers and the patrol officer assigned to guard or patrol such customers’ premises. Such list shall be open to inspection by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department.
(f) Report of Law Violations. No permittee under this chapter shall perform official police duties. The permittee shall insure that every violation of law and every unusual occurrence coming to the permittee’s attention or to the attention of his or her patrol officers in the performance of their duties is immediately reported to the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department.
(Ord. 788 § 23 (part), 1999)