It is the responsibility of the City Council to provide for
the safety of its citizens, and to further provide for a means to
enforce local laws and ordinances, serve criminal process pursuant
to law and execute orders and commitments of the City Court. The Council
may choose to establish a Police Department in order to meet these
obligations. In that circumstance, the City Police Department shall
have all the common law and statutory powers of constables, except
that it may serve civil process only on behalf of the City or any
department or officer thereof.
Within any such Police Department, the head shall be the Police
Chief, who shall be appointed by the Manager pursuant to Civil Service
Law.
The Council shall determine the number of active officers and
patrolmen who shall constitute the Police Department. Subject to the
Manager's approval, the Police Chief shall, pursuant to such
determination and to the Civil Service Law of the State of New York,
appoint, promote, discipline, suspend, or remove such police officers.
The Police Chief is hereby authorized to establish and administer
all aspects of a program whereby volunteer persons shall be trained
to enforce parking infractions in all public and private parking areas
in the City of Batavia which are governed by handicapped or other
parking ordinances, laws and regulations. Sworn members of said program
are hereby designated as officials authorized to issue notices of
parking violations in the same manner as City of Batavia police officers.
