[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of
the Town of Monroe 1-27-1977 (Ch. 11 of the 1976 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Town Council does hereby establish and create
a corps of fire police within and for the Town of Monroe as hereinafter
set forth.
[Amended 7-27-1998]
Said fire police shall be empowered and authorized
to preserve the public peace, including traffic control and regulation,
during fires, fire drills, fire calls and/or other related fire company
activity to which a volunteer fire company of and within the Town
of Monroe is called upon to respond.
[Amended 7-18-1979]
The fire police of the Town of Monroe shall
act under and be subject to the direction of the chief of the volunteer
fire company to which the fire policemen belong or any member serving
in the capacity of fire officer in charge of directing activities
at such fire or other emergency to which the fire policemen's company
responds.
Each such fire police person, while in the performance
of fire police duties, shall wear the badge of office in plain view
of any observer. Each such fire police person, while directing traffic
in performance of the duties of fire police, shall wear a white helmet
with the words "Fire Police" in red letters on the front thereof or
regulation fire police dress uniform cap and, after dark or in inclement
weather, a traffic safety vest, orange or lime green raincoat or any
reflectorized orange or lime green outer clothing that meets national,
state and local traffic safety standards; carry a flashlight, which
shall have a red or orange wand and be capable of projecting a clear
light for the purpose of illumination at nighttime; and utilize hand-held
or portable traffic control devices appropriate for the time of day,
weather and traffic flow. Such helmet, cap, vest, raincoat or outer
clothing, badge, traffic control equipment and flashlight may be supplied
by the appointing municipality or district.
[Amended 7-18-1979]
The Town Council shall appoint fire police persons
from a list of fire company personnel recommended by the volunteer
fire companies of the Town. The fire police persons shall be citizens
of the State of Connecticut, bona fide members of a volunteer fire
company of and within the Town of Monroe and at least 18 years of
age. Fire police persons shall submit to the same criminal record
check as required for auxiliary police officers of the Town of Monroe.
The Town Council may refuse to appoint any person who has been convicted
of the crime of moral turpitude. Said fire police persons shall serve
without compensation. The number of fire police persons to be appointed
by the Town Council shall be determined each year upon recommendation
by the volunteer fire companies.
[Added 7-18-1979; amended 7-27-1998]
No person shall be appointed as a fire police
person unless he/she shall have successfully completed a training
course in the requirements and duties of such position of at least
four hours in length given by the Monroe Police Department in cooperation
with the volunteer fire companies. No person shall be reappointed
as a fire police person unless he/she shall have successfully completed
a refresher training course of at least two hours given by the Monroe
Police Department in cooperation with the volunteer fire companies.
The Town Council may, upon recommendation of
a volunteer fire company, remove for cause any fire police person
appointed hereunder.
[Amended 7-27-1998]
The term of each fire police person shall be
one year or until a successor is duly appointed.
