(A) The Police Department shall, within the City:
(1) Preserve peace;
(2) Prevent offenses;
(3) Detect and arrest criminals;
(4) Suppress riots, mobs and insurrections;
(5) Disperse unlawful and dangerous assemblages and assemblages that obstruct the free passage of public streets, sidewalks, parks and places;
(6) Protect the rights of persons and property;
(7) Guard the public health;
(8) Preserve order at elections and public meetings;
(9) Direct the movement of vehicles in public ways or public places;
(10) Remove all nuisances in public parks or public ways;
(11) Provide proper police assistance at fires or other emergencies;
(12) Assist, advise and protect strangers and travelers in public ways or at transportation facilities;
(13) Carefully observe and inspect all places of business under license or required to be licensed; and
(14) Enforce and prevent the violation of all laws in force in the City.
(B) Pursuant to I.C.36-8-3-10, the Police Chief and the deputy chief may supervise and inspect all pawnbrokers, vendors, junkshop keepers, cartmen, expressmen, dealers in secondhand merchandise, intelligence offices, architectural salvage material dealers (as defined in I.C. 24-4-16-3), and auctions. Any member of the Department may be authorized in writing by the Chief to exercise the same powers.