(A) Duties. The police officers of the municipality shall carry out the orders of their superior officers and observe the rules and regulations prescribed for the discipline of the police force. Within the limits prescribed by law, they shall do all things necessary for the prevention and detection of crime in the municipality.
(1992 Code, § 5-1-109)
(B) Powers.
(1) The authority of the police of the city shall include the power to arrest persons charged with a crime:
(a) Within the limits of the city;
(b) Within five miles thereof; and
(c) Along the line of water supply of the city.
(2) The police of the city shall have the power to prevent and punish intoxication, fights, riots, loud noises, disorderly conduct, obscenity and acts or conduct calculated to disturb the public peace or which are offensive to public morals, within three miles of the limits.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit powers previously granted or had by the Council or the police, but shall be in addition thereto.
(1992 Code, § 5-1-110)
(C) Direction of traffic. Officers of the Police Department are authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with the city ordinances; provided, however, that, officers of the Police Department may direct traffic as conditions require in the event of fire or other emergency. Officers of the Fire Department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic in the immediate vicinity of the fire.
(1992 Code, § 5-1-111)
(D) Jurisdiction.
(1) The Ronan Police Department is hereby authorized and empowered to effect arrests within five miles of the corporate limits of the city of persons charged with a crime, or in such cases or circumstances within the said five-mile limit, to stop and inquire of such persons for whom a particularized suspicion has arisen that such person is or may be committing a crime prohibited by the laws of Montana or of the city, in such manner as may be otherwise provided by law.
(2) The Ronan Police Department is hereby authorized and empowered to prevent by arrest or otherwise as provided in the laws of Montana or of the city such disturbances of the peace or offenses against the public morals that may occur within three miles of the corporate limits of the city.
(3) Nothing in this division (D) shall be construed to require that the Ronan Police Department patrol or undertake enforcement responsibilities in the extended limits as herein provided, nor to interfere with or modify in any way the respective jurisdictions or procedures of the several law enforcement agencies whose jurisdictions overlap within the said extended limits.
(Ord. 07-04, passed 9-10-2007)