A. The provisions of section 10-2.1-17 of article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code 1 (the "Act") are applicable to full time members of the Police Department, except as modified by this section.
B. The provisions of section 10-2.1-4 of the Act are hereby modified to provide that the Village President, with the advice and consent of the Village Board of Trustees, will appoint all full time members of the Police Department, including the Chief of Police. The minimum educational requirement for the original appointment of full-time police officers is a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. After completing the Final Eligibility Register, the commission will certify to the Village President and the Board of Trustees, the Final Eligibility Register of candidates for original appointment to the position of full- time police officer. Each time an original appointment as a full-time officer is to be made from the Final Eligibility Register, the Village President will recommend for appointment one person from the top ten (10) eligible candidates from the current Final Eligibility Register. Such recommendation to the Village Board will be made subsequent to the Village President's interview of the candidate and upon the candidate's satisfactory completion of a polygraph examination and a thorough background investigation. A candidate whom the Village President considers to be unsuitable for recommendation for employment in the Police Department will be stricken from the Final Eligibility Register. With the advice and consent of the Village Board of Trustees, a conditional offer of employment will be issued by the Village President to the recommended candidate, conditioned upon the candidate's satisfactory completion of the required psychological and medical examinations. If the candidate fails to satisfactorily complete the required psychological and medical examinations, the conditional offer of employment will be rescinded by the Village President and such candidate will be stricken from the Final Eligibility Register. Upon satisfactory completion of the required psychological and medical examinations, the Village President will issue a letter of appointment to such candidate. Notwithstanding the above, an original appointment to a full- time member of the Police Department may also be made by the Village President's appointment, upon the recommendation of the Chair of the Board of Police Commissioners, the Chair of the Village Public Safety Committee and the Chief of Police, and with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, of a qualified part-time police officer currently employed with the Village's Police Department who has served the Village honorably for at least two (2) years, taking precedence over candidates on any existing eligibility register. The Village President has the final authority, with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, to determine whether it is in the best interests of the Village to appoint a part-time officer to fill a full-time vacancy in the Police Department or to select a candidate from a Final Eligibility Register.
C. If the Board of Police Commissioners becomes aware of information regarding a person listed upon an eligibility register that would have disqualified that person from being listed on the register if it had been learned prior to the creation of the register, the Board of Police Commissioners will strike the name from the eligibility register.
D. Should the Final Eligibility Register contain fewer than ten (10) names at any given time, the Village President may request that the Board of Police Commissioners prepare a new Final Eligibility Register. If the new Final Eligibility Register is established prior to the expiration of the current Final Eligibility Register, persons remaining on the current list may request that their names be placed upon the new Final Eligibility Register based upon their scores from the previous register, or they may choose to retest. If the person chooses to retest for the new eligibility register, the new scores will be used for the preparation of the new eligibility register and original test scores will be forfeited.
E. All persons appointed as part time or full-time police officers, including any part-time officer appointed to a full-time officer position, will have an eighteen (18) month probationary period. The Board of Police Commissioners may remove a person from any other eligibility register for police officer if they fail to satisfactorily complete their probationary period.
F. The provisions of this section 5-1-9 do not apply to auxiliary police officers. (Ord. 2017-1162, 9-14-2017)
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| 1 | 1. 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-4. |