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In addition to the powers, duties and functions prescribed by Charter, the responsibility to provide building and facilities security services, consisting of sworn police services and non-sworn security services, to the non-proprietary departments and offices of the City of Los Angeles is transferred to the Police Department as part of the consolidation and merger of the Department of General Services’ Office of Public Safety into the Police Department.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 182,298, Eff. 12-19-12.
A Police Reserve Corps is created and established as an organization, which shall be composed of persons who shall have been appointed and sworn in as members of the Corps by the Chief of Police or by a Deputy Chief of Police designated by the Chief for this purpose. The number of members of the Corps may be increased, but not to exceed 200 during any fiscal year commencing with the Fiscal Year 1968-69 and shall not exceed 2,000 at any time. Within these limitations, the Chief of Police shall have the authority to determine the number of Reserve Officers in the Reserve categories of Level I, Level II or Level III, and in the Chaplain-Counselor Corps. Any person regardless of gender shall be eligible to qualify to become members and, for this purpose, words of the masculine gender, wherever used in this Article, shall include the feminine gender. Members shall be volunteer workers only and shall not be, or be deemed to be, employees of the City or of the Police Department for any purpose other than for the purposes of Section 22.233 of this Article and shall serve gratuitously except as provided in Section 22.230 of this Article.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 137,603.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,536, Eff. 11-6-00; Ord. No. 177,374, Eff. 4-9-06; Ord. No. 181,900, Eff. 11-14-11.
The Chief, subject to the restrictions and limitations contained in this article, shall have complete authority and control over the Corps and its members and may delegate the exercise thereof, in whole or in part, to any of the Chief’s subordinates. The Chief or any of the Chief’s subordinates whom the Chief shall have designated therefore may establish, by order which may be changed from time to time, rules and regulations governing the Corps and its members, providing for the maintenance of discipline and the assigning of each member to perform police duties in a patrol car, in traffic control, in crowd control or in specialized assignments.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 137,603.
Amended by: Ord. No. 166,421, Eff. 12-30-90; Renumbered From Former Sec. 22.229, Ord. No. 177,374, Eff. 4-9-06.
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