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(Added by Ord. No. 175,997, Eff. 7/7/04.)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, a Regular Police Officer or Reserve Police Officer may purchase and retain any badge lawfully issued to the officer upon promotion to a different rank, provided that upon purchase, the Board shall cause such badges to be encased, which will effectively preclude the improper use of such badges.
(b) No person shall remove from the encasement, any badge obtained under this section, or wear such a badge or display it, except while it is within the encasement. Any badge removed, worn or displayed in violation of this subsection shall be subject to confiscation by the Board.
(c) Upon demand of the Chief of Police, any badge obtained under this section shall be returned to the Chief of Police.
(Amended by Ord. No. 170,055, Eff. 11/13/94; Renumbered from Former Sec. 52.27.2 by Ord. No. 177,374, Eff. 4/9/06.)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the Board of Police Commissioners may:
1. Cause the officer’s badge and number to be retired from active service and use.
2. Cause the badge, or a similar badge, to be presented to the deceased officer’s surviving spouse of surviving member(s) of the officer’s immediate family, as a memorial honoring the officer.
3. Cause the officer’s City-issued equipment, including an officer’s duty weapon, shooting medals, cap piece, handcuffs, call box key and buttons, to also be included at the City’s expense in the memorial which is presented to the deceased officer’s surviving spouse or surviving member(s) of the officer’s immediate family.
A. Prior to the presentation, the Board shall cause the badge and other City-issued equipment to be affixed permanently to a plaque or within a frame, which will effectively preclude improper use of the badge or other City-issued equipment, with a statement clearly visible showing the officer’s death in the line of duty.
B. No person shall remove from the plaque or frame any badge or other City-issued equipment presented under this section, or wear such a badge, or display it, except while it is attached to the plaque or within the frame, with the above described statement clearly visible. Any badge or other City-issued equipment removed, worn or displayed in violation of this subsection shall be subject to confiscation by the Board.
(Amended by Ord. No. 164,340, Eff. 2/20/89.)
No person, other than a sworn police officer, shall wear any shoulder emblem or any uniform of a pattern, or design, or in the semblance of the uniform, adopted, or hereafter adopted, by the Board for the use of the regular members of the police department, or wear upon any uniform any star, badge, or insignia of a pattern or design that may be mistaken for, or confused with, the official police officer’s badge.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph of this section, any retired Los Angeles Police officer authorized by the Chief of Police and actively employed to perform traffic control and crowd control pursuant to the provisions of Section 80.03.1 at the site of the filming of any motion picture or television production, may wear the uniform of the Los Angeles Police Department with the retirees retired officer’s badge affixed thereto.
The Board shall have the power and authority to adopt and prescribe, by resolution, the uniform to be worn by all special officers, bank guards, and funeral escorts, if any uniform is worn, while performing the duties of a special police officer. The uniform so prescribed for any such class of special officer may, but need not be the same as the uniform so prescribed for the other such class, or classes of special officers.
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