[Adopted by Ord. No. 1353 (§ 2-12B of the 1987 Code)]
The Borough shall cooperate with all other municipalities
which adopt a similar reciprocal ordinance providing for intermunicipal
police assistance in times of emergency.
Intermunicipal assistance will be provided if
and when the Borough of Highland Park has an emergency within its
boundaries requiring additional police assistance to protect life
and property, or to assist in suppressing a riot or disorder, and
whenever another municipality, which has enacted a similar reciprocal
ordinance, may experience a similar emergency requiring additional
police assistance.
The Chief of Police of the Borough of Highland
Park or the highest ranking officer on duty at the time, is hereby
authorized to request assistance from the Chief or the highest ranking
officer on duty of the police departments of other municipalities
for intermunicipal police assistance during and/or after an emergency
situation.
The Chief of Police of the Borough of Highland
Park or the highest ranking officer on duty at the time shall provide
assistance to another municipality or municipalities making a valid
request to supply such personnel and equipment, to the extent possible
without endangering person or property within the Borough of Highland
Park.
Members of the Highland Park Police Department
supplying emergency assistance to another municipality shall have
the same powers and authority, as have the members of the police department
of the municipality in which said assistance is being rendered. Additionally,
said members shall also have, while so acting, said rights and immunities
as they may otherwise enjoy in the performance of their normal duties
within the Borough of Highland Park.
The Borough of Highland Park shall, upon providing
to another municipality which has enacted a similar intermunicipal
assistance ordinance, assume the cost and expense of providing said
personnel and equipment to the requesting municipality; excepting
such instances when the requesting municipality receives state or
federal aid as reimbursement therefor. In this event, the costs incurred
by the Borough shall be submitted to the municipality which requested
assistance for reimbursement.
At such times that an emergency may occur and
intermunicipal police aid is requested, the Chief of Police of the
municipality wherein said emergency situation exists, shall be the
senior ranking officer of all members of any police department rendering
assistance within the boundaries of said municipality.
In the event any member of a police force summoned
pursuant to an agreement to render assistance, suffers injury or death
in the performance of his or her duties, he/she or his/her designee
or legal representative shall be entitled to such salary, pension
rights, workmen's compensation or other benefits as would have accrued,
if such injury or death had occurred in the performance of his or
her normal duties.
A copy of this article shall be transmitted
to the Municipal Clerk of each municipality within Middlesex County
and the Municipal Clerk in Franklin Township, Somerset County, no
later than five business days following its adoption. The Clerk of
the Borough of Highland Park shall maintain a record of all such similar
ordinances adopted by other municipalities.
