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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Defining Powers and Duties of Police Department, Repealing Ordinance 547 b TEMPORARY ORD. NO. 47 PERMANENT ORD. NO. 796 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 547 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA Section 1. Administration. The chief of police shall be head of the polic department and shall have supervision and direction of all of the functions of the police department. The chief of police shall perform all the duties of and be the city marshal of the City of Ames. Section 2. . Distribution of Personnel. The chief of police shall have the power and authority to assign the personnel of the police department as he deems necessary to carry out the functions of the police department, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the conduct and management of the department. Section 3. Records of Arrest and Release. The police department shall keep a record of arrest, commitment and release of all prisoners and such other records as the mayor or the city council shall direct. Section 4. Serving process. The members of the police department shall have power and authority and it shall be their duty to serve and execute within the county warrants, processes and notices as directed by the city council, any court or administrative officer of the city authorized to issue such warrants, processes or notices. Section 5. General Powers. It shall be the duty of the police department to preserve order, peace and quiet, suppress all riots, disturbances and breaches of peace, enforce all laws and ordinances and to file information and arrest all persons committing any offense against the laws of the state of Iowa or the ordinances of the City of Ames, and to forthwith bring such persons before the proper court for examination or trial. The chief of police may orally summon as many persons as he finds necessary to aid him in marring an arrest of any person accused or suspected of a crime, or in the suppression of any riot or unlawful assemblage, or in the preventing of the violation of any law or ordinance. Section 6. Investigations. It shall be the duty of the police department to conduct investigations to detect violations of the laws of the state of Iowa and the ordinances of the City of Ames and to apprehend the violators thereof. They shall collect, classify and keep complete information useful for the detection of crime and identification and apprehension of criminals. I Section 7. Notice to Legal Departments. Whenever any person shall have been arrested and brought before the proper court for the violation of any city ordinance or state law and such person shall plead not guilty, the chief of police shall inform the city solicitor or county attorney, as the case may be, of the facts in the case and of the witnesses by whom these facts may be proven. Section 8. Aid to Fire Department. It shall be the duty of the members of the police department to aid and assist the fire department by giving alarms in case of fire and by clearing the streets and grounds in the immediate vicinity of a fire so that members of the fire department may perform their duties. Section 9. Street Openings and Obstructions. It shall be the duty of the members of the police department upon observing or being informed of any unauthorized street openings or excavations, or any obstructions or conditions within the street limits or public ways, likely to cause injury to persons or property, to promptly notify the city manager of such conditions and in emergencies to take such immediate action as may be necessary to protect the public from injury until the condition can be remedied. Section 10. City Jail. The city jail of the City of Ames shall be under the supervision and control of the police department. Section 11. Admission to Jail. No person shall be admitted or enter the city jail for the purpose of soliciting business from a prisoner. No person shall be admitted to the city jail for the purpose of interviewing a prisoner until furnishing the police department with the following information, which shall be made a matter of permanent record by the police department, his name and the name of the prisoner to be interviewed. Section 12. Office Records. The department shall keep an accurate accou t, in a book provided by the city for that purpose, of all monies which may by virtue of his office come into his hands from whatever source, stating from whom received, on what account the same was paid, and he shall pay over the same monthly to the city treasurer. Section 13. Report. The chief of police shall make an annual report of the activities of his office for each calendar year and the same shall be filed with the city clerk on or before February first of the year following, and in addition thereto shall make such other reports as maybe so requested by the city council. Section 14. Budget. The chief of police shall prepare and file with the mayor on or before July first of each year a detailed budget of proposed expendi- tures for the following fiscal year. Section 15. Repeal. Ordinance No. 547 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 16. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. Passed this 29th day of March, 1955. J. W. Prather, City Clerk J. P. Lawlor, Mayor Moved by Griffith and seconded by Smith that Ordinance No. 796 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart Moved by Smith and seconded by Judge that the rules governing the passage of ordinances be suspended, the second and third readings omitted and Ordinance No. 796 be placed on its final pas sage. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart Moved byJ udge and seconded by Bolton that Ordinance No. 796 do now pass. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart Mayor Lawlor declared Ordinance No. 796 duly adopted. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 796 was duly and properly passed at a meeting of the City Council on the 29th day of March, 1955 and published by c odifying on the E� day of , 19 i J. W. Prather, City Clerk