(A) The police officers of the city are hereby severally authorized and empowered to arrest all persons in the city found in the act of violating any law or ordinance or aiding or abetting in any such violation and take such person before the proper court for trial, or if such arrest shall take place in the nighttime or on Sunday, to take such person to the county jail or to the city prison and there safely keep such person until the morning of the next secular day, when such person shall be taken before the proper court for trial. All police officers shall be in subordination to the Chief of Police and the night police and shall aid and assist such officers, respectively, in the preservation of peace and good order and in the enforcement of the laws and ordinances of the city.
(B) A police officer hired by the city shall have a starting salary of $7,500 per year. A $500 raise to be given the officer after completion of police training institute, and then a $260 raise every six months until he or she has been employed by the city for a period of five years at which time the Council will then decide upon an annual salary increase.
(1974 Code, § 1-10-4) (Ord. 584, passed 9-28-1976)