(A) In order that the village adequately maintain its law enforcement responsibilities, the Village President, with the consent of the Board of Trustees, may appoint special police officers on a part-time and an auxiliary basis to perform police enforcement duties under the supervision of the Director of Public Safety.
(Prior Code, § 32.06)
(B) (1) Appointment. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Board of Trustees, may appoint auxiliary police officers in such number as the corporate authorities from time to time deem necessary.
(2) Status. Auxiliary police officers shall only be “conservators of the peace” and shall only carry firearms while on duty, with the permission of the Chief of Police, and only after completing the state certified 40-hour mandatory firearms training course as provided under ILCS Ch. 50, Act 710, § 2. Auxiliary police officers shall not be considered to be members of the regular police department, and shall not supplement members of the regular police department of the village in the performance of their assigned and normal duties except as otherwise provided herein.
(3) Identification symbol. Identification symbols worn by the auxiliary police officers shall be different and distinct from those used by the regular police department.
(4) Supervision. Auxiliary police officers shall, at all times during the performance of their duties, be subject to the direction and control of the Chief of Police of the Village.
(5) Powers and duties.
(a) Auxiliary police officers shall only be assigned to perform the following duties in the village:
1. To aid or direct traffic within the municipality;
2. To aid in control of natural or man-made disasters; and
3. To aid in case of civil disorder as directed by the Chief of Police.
(b) When it is impractical for members of the regular police department to perform those normal and regular police duties, however, the Chief of Police of the regular police department may assign auxiliary police officers to perform those normal and regular police duties.
(6) Hiring standards. No person shall be hired as an auxiliary police officer who has not been fingerprinted, subject to the background check, and found to have never been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude. Auxiliary police officers are not required to be residents of the village.
(Ord. 83-4, passed 7-11-1983; Ord. 08-18, passed 8-26-2008; Ord. 12-14, passed 8-28-2012; Ord. 12-16, passed 9-25-2012)