(a) There is hereby established a Police Department for the city, to consist of the following officers and personnel and such other officers and personnel as Council shall from time to time determine:
(1) One Chief of Police;
(2) One police captain;
(3) Four police sergeants;
(4) Eleven police patrol officers, two of which shall be school resource officers. The hiring and continued employment of said resource officers shall be contingent upon active contracts in partnership with the Board of Education of the Shelby City School District and the Board of Education of the Pioneer Career & Technology Center, wherein each board will immediately pay or reimburse the city 75% of all cost, expense, pension, retirement, health benefit, insurance, or any other cost or expense associated with said school resource officer as well as 100% of all training cost or expense associated with said school resource officer. If a board fails for any reason whatsoever to pay or reimburse the city as contemplated herein, the School Resource Officer's position for that district shall be immediately terminated, unless otherwise modified by Council. Further, said positions are contingent upon any collective bargaining agreement between the city and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 180 acknowledging and approving the terms contained herein as well as with any contract or agreement with each board; and
(5) Four police dispatchers.
(b) The Police Department parking meter repair person shall no longer be a position in the Police Department.
(Ord. 27-84, passed 8-29-1984; Ord. 9-91, passed 3-4-1991; Ord. 26-2013, passed 8-5-2013; Ord. 22-2017, passed 8-7-2017; Ord. 5-2018, passed 5-21-2018; Ord. 22-2019, passed 9-3-2019; Ord. 29-2021, passed 12-6-2021)