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The Director of Public Safety shall be executive head of the Divisions of Police and Fire. Except as provided by this charter or by ordinance of Council, the Director of Public Safety shall have the duties of a Director of Public Safety as provided by the Ohio Revised Code.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Director of the Department of Police Operations, to be called the Chief of Police, shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all patrol officers, and other officers and employees constituting the police force, under such rules and regulations as the Director of Public Safety may prescribe. The Director of Public Safety shall have the exclusive management and control of such other officers and employees as shall be employed in the administration of the affairs of the Department. The police force shall be composed of a Chief of the Department of Police, and such officers, patrol officers and other employees as may be provided for by ordinance or resolution of the Council. In case of riot or like emergency, the Mayor may appoint additional patrol officers and officers for temporary service who need not be in the classified service.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Operations shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all firefighters and other officers and employees constituting the fire force, under such rules and regulations as the Director of Public Safety may prescribe. The Director of Public Safety shall have the exclusive management and control of such other officers and employees as may be employed in the administration of the affairs of the Department. The Fire Force shall be composed of a Chief of the Department and such other officers, firefighters and employees as may be provided for by ordinance or resolution of the Council. In case of riot, conflagration, or like emergency, the Mayor may appoint additional firefighters and officers for temporary service who need not be in the classified service.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Chiefs of the Departments of Police and Fire shall have the exclusive right to suspend any of the officers or employees in their respective divisions, for incompetence, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, habitual drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by the proper authority, or for any other just and reasonable cause. If any officer or employee be suspended, as herein provided, the Chief of the department concerned shall forthwith in writing certify the fact, together with the cause for the suspension, to the Director of Public Safety. Within five days from the receipt thereof, the Director of Public Safety shall proceed to inquire into the cause of such suspension and render judgment thereon, which judgment, if the charge be sustained, may be suspension, reduction in rank, or dismissal. Such judgment in the matter shall be final, except as otherwise hereinafter provided. In any such investigation, the Director of Public Safety shall have the same power to administer oaths and secure the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books and papers, as is herein conferred upon the Council.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
Any person in the Departments of Police or Fire under the exclusive control of the Chief thereof, who is suspended, reduced in rank, or dismissed from the Department by the Director of Public Safety, may appeal from the decision of such officer to the Civil Service Commission within ten days from and after the date of such suspension, reduction or dismissal. In such event said Director shall, upon notice from the Commission of such appeal, forthwith transmit to the Commission a copy of the charges and proceedings thereunder. The Commission shall hear such appeal within ten days from and after the filing of the same with the Commission, and may affirm, disaffirm or modify the judgment of the Director of Public Safety, and its judgment in the matter shall be final.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
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