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The Fire Chief or the Assistant Fire Chief shall have the power, during the time of a fire and for a period of 36 hours after its extinguishment, to arrest any suspected arsonist, or other person hindering or resisting the fire fighting effort, or any person who conducts himself or herself in a noisy or disorderly manner. The officials shall be severally vested with the usual powers and authority of city police officers to command all persons to assist them in the performance of their duties.
The Fire Chief shall investigate or cause to be investigated the cause, origin, and circumstances of every fire occurring in the city by which property has been destroyed or damaged. All fires of unknown origin shall be reported, and such officer shall especially make an investigation and report as to whether the fire was the result of carelessness, accident, or design. The investigation shall begin immediately after of the occurrence of the fire, and the State Fire Marshal shall have the right to supervise and direct the investigation whenever he or she deems it expedient or necessary. The officer making the investigation of fires occurring in the city shall forthwith notify the State Fire Marshal and shall within one week of the occurrence of the fire furnish him or her written statement of all the facts relating to the cause and origin of the fire and such further information as he or she may call for.
(Neb. RS 81-506)
It shall be the duty of the Fire Department to house and maintain the city ambulance. All ambulance attendants shall be appointed by the governing body and shall form their own Ambulance Board within the Fire Department electing officers, adopting rules and regulations for ambulance operations, and setting and collecting fees for services rendered. The operation of the municipal ambulance may be carried out jointly with the Rural Fire Protection District. All of the activities of the Ambulance Board shall be subject to the review of the governing body.
(Prior Code, § 3-312)
All ambulance personnel shall be considered to be employees of the municipality for the purpose of providing them with worker’s compensation and other benefits. Each member shall be entitled to a term life insurance policy in the amount of at least $10,000 for death from any cause to age 65 and such policy shall at the option of the individual ambulance personnel be convertible to a permanent form of life insurance at age 65.
(Neb. RS 35-108) (Prior Code, § 3-313)
POLICE DEPARTMENT
(A) If the Mayor and City Council have provided for the appointment of a Police Chief, the Police Department shall consist of the Chief of Police and such further number of regular police officers as may be duly ordered by resolution of the Council.
(B) The Chief of Police shall, subject to the direction of the Mayor, have control and management of all matters relating to the Police Department and its officers and members and shall have the custody and control of all property and books belonging to the Police Department. The Chief shall devote his or her whole time to the city affairs and interests of the city and to the preservation of peace, order, safety, and cleanliness thereof.
(C) The Police Department shall execute and enforce all laws and also the orders of the Mayor. It shall be the duty of the Police Department to protect the rights of persons and property. The Police Department shall take notice of all nuisances, impediments, obstructions, and defects in the streets, avenues, alleys, business places, and residences of the city. The Police Department shall execute, or cause to be executed, the processes issued and shall cause all persons arrested to be brought before the proper court for trial as speedily as possible. The Chief of Police and all regular and special police officers shall become thoroughly conversant with the laws of the city and shall see that the same are strictly enforced and shall make sworn complaints against any person or persons for violation of the same. It shall be the duty of every city police officer making a lawful arrest to search all persons in the presence of some other person, whenever possible, and to carefully keep and produce to the proper judicial official upon the trial everything found upon the person of such prisoners. All personal effects so taken from prisoners shall be restored to them upon their release. The Police Chief and other police officers shall file such reports as may be required by the city ordinances and the laws of the state. No law enforcement official shall have any interest in any establishment having a liquor license.
(D) Suitable badges shall be furnished to the city police by the city. Any police officer who loses or destroys the same shall be required to pay the replacement costs. If a police officer leaves the city police force, he or she shall immediately deliver his or her badge to the Police Chief.
(E) City police officers shall have full power and authority to call on any person whenever necessary to assist them in performing public duties, and failure, neglect, or refusal to render such assistance shall be deemed an offense.
Penalty, see § 10.99
No appointment of a law enforcement reserve officer shall be valid until a bond in the amount of $2,000, payable to the city, has been filed with the City Clerk by the individual appointed or a blanket surety bond arranged and paid for by the City Council and bonding all such officers of the City Council has been filed. These bonds shall be subject to the provisions of Neb. RS Ch. 11, Art. 1.
(Neb. RS 81-1444)
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