Members of the Police Department are severally authorized to arrest with or without process, or on view, any person who shall break the peace or is found violating any ordinance of the Village or any criminal law of the state, and to take such person before a proper magistrate, or if necessary, detain such person in custody over night or Sunday in the Village jail, or any other safe place, until he can be brought before a proper magistrate or court.
(1997 Code, § 4.13)