TITLE 5
POLICE REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 1
POLICE DEPARTMENT 1
SECTION:
5-1-1: Created; Chief Of Police
5-1-2: Departmental Duties
5-1-3: Police Officers
5-1-4: Services Outside City

 

Notes

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1. See Charter sections 39, 53 and 54.
5-1-1: CREATED; CHIEF OF POLICE:
There shall be a Police Department, the head of which is the Chief of Police or Police Chief. The Chief of Police is an officer of the City, and has supervision and control of the Police Department. (1988 Code § 13-301)
5-1-2: DEPARTMENTAL DUTIES:
It is the duty of the Police Department to apprehend and arrest on view or on warrant and bring to justice all violators of the ordinances of the City; to suppress all riots, affrays and unlawful assemblies which may come to their knowledge, and generally to keep the peace; to serve all warrants, writs, executions and other processes properly directed and delivered to them; to apprehend and arrest persons violating Federal or State law as provided by law, and to turn them over to proper authorities; and in all respects to perform all duties pertaining to the office of police officers. The Police Department has charge of and operates the City jail. (1988 Code § 13-302)
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