The City Manager shall appoint a Chief of Police and such number of regular and special policemen for the City as the Governing Body may deem necessary for the best interest, welfare and protection of the City.

(C.O. No. 13, Sec. 3; Code 1992)

The Chief of the Police Department shall, under the direction of the City Manager, have complete control of the Police Department and shall be responsible for the proper organization, training, discipline and functioning of the Police Department, and for the proper care, use and safety of all property used in connection with such department.

(Code 1970, 22‑2:3; Code 1989)

The several members of the department, when on duty, shall devote their time and attention to the discharge of their respective duties according to the laws and ordinances of the City. It shall be their duty, respectively, at all times to the best of their ability, to preserve good order, peace and quiet and enforce the laws and ordinances of the City. They shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to arrest all persons found in the act of violating any law or ordinance of the City, or aiding or abetting any such violation. It shall be their duty to make complaints against any and every person violating the laws and ordinances of the City and cause such person to be brought to trial.

(Code 1970, 22‑5; Code 1989)

Whenever any additional police force is necessary to quell any riotous or disorderly conduct, or to secure any person accused of crime, or violation of the law or ordinances of the City, any member of the department is hereby authorized to call on any inhabitant or other person in the City for assistance.

(Code 1970, 22‑6; Code 1989)

Any member of the police force who shall neglect or refuse to perform the duties required of him or her by this code or other ordinances of the City, or who, while in the discharge of his or her official duty, shall be guilty of any fraud, exertion, oppression, favoritism, partiality or willful cruelty, or of taking or receiving directly or indirectly any bribe, or of unnecessary, unreasonable and malicious trespass upon private premises, shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 1‑115:116 of this code and, pending trial, shall be suspended from duty by the City Manager. Upon conviction from the Court the officer shall be immediately dismissed from the department as required by law.

(Code 1970, 22‑7; Code 1989)

The Chief of Police and all law enforcement are prohibited from leaving the City for the purpose of making arrests for rewards, except with the consent of the City Manager or Governing Body but shall devote their full time to the City.

(Code 1970, 22‑9; Code 1989)

There is hereby established a police reserve unit in the City. Members of the police reserve unit shall, upon recommendation of the Chief of Police, be appointed by the City Manager.

(Ord. 1168, Sec. 1)

The reserve police force, when on duty shall be governed by the same rules and regulations governing members of the regular police force and shall, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the City, be granted a commission as a reserve police officer, which shall vest in that officer all the powers and authority of a regular Law Enforcement Officer of the City.

(Ord. 1168, Sec. 2)