[Adopted 5-7-1984 as Title 3, Ch. 1 of the 1984 Code]
[Amended 2-4-2019]
A. 
The Police Department may consist of a Chief of Police and such other officers and number of patrol persons as shall be determined and prescribed from time to time by the Common Council. Alternatively, the Common Council may elect to contract with the Marquette County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement. In this event, the Sheriff's Department shall appoint a command staff member to act as a liaison between the City and the Sheriff's Department as an alternative to a Chief of Police. In the case of contracted law enforcement services, full-time officers/deputies shall be hired and assigned by the Marquette County Sheriff's Department. Part-time officers will be City employees. The Marquette County Sheriff's Department liaison will make hiring recommendations for part-time City officers to the Public Safety Committee.
B. 
The Chief of Police shall be appointed as determined in Chapter 78, § 78-5, of this Code. Officers and other subordinates shall be appointed by the Chief of Police, subject to approval by a majority of the Common Council. Officers and the Chief of Police shall serve a probationary period of one year, unless otherwise approved for a different period by the Common Council. During the probationary period, the Common Council may, at its option, lay off or terminate, with or without cause, said probationary employee without recourse to any grievance and arbitration policy covering the employee. Should the Common Council contract for law enforcement services through the Marquette County Sheriff's Department (hereafter referred to as MASO), the hiring, probationary period, layoffs, termination, grievances and/or arbitration process for all full-time law enforcement contracted deputies shall be the responsibility of MASO per their policies and procedures.
A. 
Monthly reports. The Chief of Police, or the MASO liaison, shall submit a written monthly report to the Public Safety Committee of all activities and transactions of the Department during the preceding month.
[Amended 2-4-2019]
B. 
Police records. There shall be kept by the Department a suitable record in which shall be entered the name of every person arrested in the City, the name of the person making the arrest, the date and cause of the arrest, the court from which the warrant was issued, the disposition made of the case, the amount of fine and costs paid and to whom paid, bond posted and all complaints in full.
[Amended 2-4-2019]
A. 
The procurement and use of equipment and supplies required by the Department for the operation of the Police Department, including uniforms, automobiles for the police work, weapons, etc., shall be prescribed by the Public Safety Committee or Common Council from time to time.
B. 
The compensation to be paid police officers for their services, the hours of active duty, rest days, vacation periods and other involvement of their employment shall be such as may be determined by the Common Council from time to time, except in the case of contracting with MASO for law enforcement services. In the case of contracted services, MASO shall be responsible for determining compensation, hours of duty, vacation periods, and other such scheduling issues.
[Amended 2-4-2019]
Any disciplinary actions taken shall be according to the policies and procedures governing such matters. If law enforcement services are contracted through MASO, any disciplinary action of full-time contracted officers/deputies shall be handled by MASO. Disciplinary action of part-time City officers will be based on a recommendation from the MASO liaison to the Public Safety Committee for action.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 3-1-6, Alderpersons to have police powers, which followed this section, was deleted 7-6-2005.
[Amended 2-4-2019]
A. 
Request for assistance. Any police officer or contracted MASO deputy may call upon or request from any person in the City of Montello assistance or aid in the execution of his/her duties.
B. 
Resistance to police. No person shall resist or in any way interfere with any law enforcement officer in the discharge of his/her duty or shall hinder or prevent him/her from discharging his/her duty as such officer, and no person shall in any manner assist any person in custody of any law enforcement officer to escape or attempt to escape from such custody or shall rescue or attempt to rescue any such person.
[Amended 7-6-2005]
There is hereby designated a period of compensated off time to be known as compensation or "comp" time. The Chief of Police and the police officers shall be entitled to one hour of compensated time off duty for each hour of overtime. Any accumulated comp time existing at the end of any calendar year may be carried over until the end of the first quarter (March 31) of the following year and by said date will be reduced to no more than 50 hours, it being expressly understood that as of said date any accumulated comp time in excess of 50 hours shall be deemed waived. Overtime hours are defined as the number of hours in excess of 96 hours in any two-week period. At no time shall the payment of said comp time be payable in money, with the exception of accumulated comp time existing upon the resignation of a police officer. Upon such resignation the police officer shall have the option of taking the comp time then due him (while remaining in the employ of the City) or he may elect to take a cash equivalent not to exceed the amount of comp time due him or 50 hours, whichever is the lesser.
All employed personnel shall submit resignations in writing at least two weeks in advance of the effective date of their resignation. In the event any such employee fails to give said notice, said employee shall forfeit the number of vacation day wages equal to the deficit number of days of said notice.
[Amended 2-4-2019]
Every member of the Police Department and every contracted law enforcement officer shall:
A. 
Familiarize himself/herself with the ordinances of the City and the state statutes and attend to the enforcement of such ordinances by all lawful means.
B. 
Help prevent crimes, misdemeanors and violations of City ordinances and protect the health, safety, public peace and order of the City and its inhabitants.
C. 
Report all street and sidewalk obstructions, unlighted streetlamps, unlawful street signs or signals and defective or dangerous streets and sidewalks to the chairperson of the appropriate committee or appropriate department head.
D. 
Assist the Fire Department in maintaining order at the scene of a fire within the City.
E. 
See that the necessary permits and licenses issued by the state or City are in the possession of or properly displayed by any person engaged in an activity or business within the City for which such permit or license is required and that the terms of such permits or licenses are complied with.
[Amended 2-4-2019]
The Chief of Police, or the MASO liaison, may recommend such further rules, regulations and policies for the government of the Police Department, subject to approval by the Public Safety Committee, as he/she deems necessary, provided that such rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the state or City ordinances.