CHAPTER 19
POLICE DEPARTMENT

General Operational Provisions   1

Special Police   2

Miscellaneous Provisions   3

Alarm Business Regulation And

Registration Fees   4

Citizen Radio Patrol (REACT) Volunteers   5

Law Enforcement Surveillance Oversight   6

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL OPERATIONAL PROVISIONS

SECTION:

19-1-1: Creation and Composition

19-1-2: Oath of Police Officers

19-1-3: Adoption of Police Pension Fund

19-1-4: Duties of Police, Generally

19-1-5: Duties; Reports Generally

19-1-6: Duties; Report on Conditions of Sidewalks and Public Property

19-1-7: Duty of Arresting Officers to Attend Trial, Present Evidence, Etc.

19-1-8: Appointment by Entry Level Appointment Committee and Promotion, Discipline and Discharge of Various Designated Members by the Village Manager, Police Chief and/or Board of Fire and Police Commissioners

19-1-9: Suspension of Members by Chief of Police

19-1-10: Gifts for Police Services Not to be Shared by Members; Exception

19-1-11: Reports to Chief of Police; Officers to Obey Orders of Chief of Police; Disposition of Seized Property

19-1-12: Police Badge

19-1-13: Authority of Police to Arrest; Preferring Charges Against Those Arrested; Confinement of Persons Under Arrest

19-1-14: Powers Relative to Service and Execution of Warrants and Other Legal Process, Etc.

19-1-15: Resisting Arrest; Hindering Police; Aiding Prisoners to Escape; Disobey Police Directive

19-1-16: Duty to Aid Police

19-1-17: Authority of Police to Enter Buildings to Apprehend Violators

19-1-1: CREATION AND COMPOSITION:

The Police Department of the Village shall consist of a Chief of Police and such other officers as shall from time to time be determined by the Board of Trustees. (Ord. 1990-0-34, 6-18-90)

19-1-2: OATH OF POLICE OFFICERS:

All members of the Police Department shall, before entering upon duty as police officers, take and subscribe an oath of office substantially in the following form:

"I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of police officer of the Village of Oak Park to the best of my ability."

Such oath shall be subscribed and sworn to before some officer authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths and the certificates thereof shall be filed in the office of the Village Clerk. (1981 Code)