Such commission shall be authorized and directed to prepare, adopt, promulgate, supervise and enforce, rules and regulations as follows:
(A) To govern the selection, appointment, reappointment and reinstatement of persons to be employed as members of the police department.
(B) To govern promotions and demotions of members of the police department. Such rules and regulations shall provide that the following four factors shall be the basic considerations of rating a member of the police department for the purpose of promotion: the grade received by a member on a written competitive examination; the past performance record of a member as a member of the police department; the rights acquired by the length of service or tenure on this city's police department, and the score received by a member on an oral interview: Provided, that the grade received on the written competitive examination shall be considered as 50% of the rating with a minimum of 70% or within 20% of the highest score on the written test to get credit for the written test; the past performance record shall be considered as 10% of the rating; the oral interview score shall be considered as 20% of the rating; seniority rights based on the number of years of service as a member of the police department at the rate of 1% for each year of service up to and including 20 years with a maximum of 20% of the rating. Provided, further, that the name or means of identification of any member taking the competitive or qualifying examination under the provisions of this chapter shall be withheld and made unavailable to the person or persons who grade such examinations, and all written competitive examinations shall be treated and filed as confidential: provided, further, that said examination papers shall be made a part of the permanent file of the individual officer taking the examination and they shall be retained in the chief's office or police headquarters under the supervision of the chief of police and the individual officer shall have access to this file to examine same at any time. The chief of the police department or the commission shall notify each member, in writing, of the grade which such member received on the examination. Such rules and regulations shall further provide that if any member is aggrieved with the grade received on the written competitive examination, he shall have the right to appeal in writing to the commission for a review of the grade within ten days after the notice of the grade has been sent to him, and the commission, after reviewing the grade and examination papers, shall have the authority to affirm the grade or to correct the grade according to the findings of the review.
(C) To prescribe the manner of determining a rating for the past performance: provided, that such rules and regulations shall contain a provision requiring that performance rating shall be made at least every six months for each member of the police department by at least one superior officer, or as designated by the commission, which ratings shall be submitted to the chief of the police department, approved by accepting or revising by the Commission, and kept on file in his office or in police headquarters under his supervision. The chief of the police department shall notify each member, in writing, of the rating which such member received. Such rules and regulations shall further provide that if any member is aggrieved with the performance rating given him by his superior officer he shall have the right to appeal to the commission for a review of the rating within ten days after the notice of the rating has been sent to him; and the commission, after reviewing the rating, shall have the authority to affirm the rating or to correct the same.
(D) To prescribe the manner of conduct of commission members.
(Ord. 14-96, passed 5-13-96; Am. Ord. 3-2001, passed 4-23-01)