All members of the Department, while on or off duty, shall, without unnecessary delay, transmit or forward to this Department headquarters information of any unusual occurrence, serious and important casualty, serious crime and unsafe public condition existing in their sector, post or within the jurisdiction of this Department and shall take appropriate police action with regard thereto.
A. 
In case of a fire or other emergency a member of this Department first on the scene shall be in charge of police function until a higher rank arrives and assumes charge. Officers assigned to other posts or sectors may be temporarily assigned to cope with a situation.
B. 
Members of the Department shall facilitate the operations of fire departments by maintaining fire lines and shall exclude from within them unauthorized persons and vehicles. Whenever possible, fire lines shall be extended beyond the fire apparatus or the hydrant in use furthest from the fire. For the purpose of cooperating with the fire department, the police officer or officers shall report to the officer in charge of the fire department and perform any proper police service that may be requested.
C. 
The members of the Department shall admit within the fire lines, upon display of proper authorization, the following persons:
(1) 
Members of the Police and Fire Departments; Building and Fire Inspectors; United States Post Office Departments; water district and gas, electric and telephone personnel; ambulance attendants; and members of the fire police patrol, in performance of their duty.
(2) 
The property owner, his family and members of the press, after properly identifying themselves.
D. 
The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department shall be in charge of all firematic duties at the scene of the fire.
E. 
The ranking officer or senior officer, at the fire scene, shall be in charge of any criminal investigations of suspected arson, etc.
F. 
Members of the Department shall admit within the fire lines the following vehicles:
(1) 
Police and fire vehicles.
(2) 
Ambulance.
(3) 
Vehicles used in conveying United States mail.
(4) 
Vehicles of utility companies if on duty connected with fire.
(5) 
Building and Fire Inspector, water district.
G. 
At the scene of a fire, every member of the Department assigned to such fire shall exercise care that a person's rights and property are not interfered with unnecessarily and are duly protected.
A. 
Mobilization of personnel to the extent required shall be activated and placed into operation on command of any of the following: Village Mayor, Chief of Police, executive officer or supervising officer on duty. It is the responsibility of the Communications Section to dispatch a superior officer to the scene of the emergency.
B. 
Procedure.
(1) 
The supervising officer or radio operator shall keep the Chief of Police or, in his absence, the executive officer informed of necessity for the alert plan.
(2) 
The Communications Section shall be responsible for keeping up the duty charts and phone numbers of all personnel and adjoining police agencies.
(3) 
When possible, all personnel will be given a twenty-four-hour warning alert not to leave the township and to keep radio operators informed of their locations.
(4) 
The alert plan will be activated in the following sequence, on orders of the Chief of Police or executive officer:
(a) 
Officers assigned to on-coming relief.
(b) 
Officers just completing tour of duty.
(c) 
Officers with day off.
(d) 
Officers on vacation.
(e) 
Detective squad.
(f) 
Special police officers.
(5) 
Should additional personnel be required, the Chief of Police or the supervising officer on duty will alert the Mayor and request that he summon (under mutual aid agreements) assistance from the following in this sequence:
(a) 
Supervisor of nearest townships.
(b) 
Sheriff of Suffolk County.
(c) 
Police Commissioner of the Suffolk County Police District. In the absence of the Police Commissioner, the commanding officer or the executive officer will put the above into effect and, where practicable, give an alert warning.
(6) 
A special emergency may be declared by the Sheriff or at the request of the Mayor and confirmed by the Sheriff requesting assistance from the Governor, who may order the New York State Police and/or National Guard to assume command of the emergency.
(7) 
The ranking officer responding to the mobilization point will assume command and is responsible for the organization of manpower and equipment and for providing transportation to the emergency area.
A. 
Operations during civil disturbances:
(1) 
Set up command post and assembly area.
(2) 
Set up traffic control and detours of affected areas.
(3) 
Maintain checkpoints leading out of affected area.
(4) 
Command movements of all field units on basis of information received in accordance with acceptable police procedure.
B. 
Tactics during a disturbance:
(1) 
Contain. Prevent the riot from increasing in terms of land area and participants.
(2) 
Isolate. Cut off those who are involved.
(3) 
Disperse. Utilize police techniques to cause rioters to break up and flee the scene.
C. 
Containment and isolation. Containment and isolation is purely a defensive measure and must be recognized as temporary in nature and as a holding action until adequate depth of organization and a buildup of police strength can be mustered to counter and quell the disturbance and arrest the violators. The following are guidelines of containment effort:
(1) 
Increase show of police strength.
(2) 
Isolate and impede the movement of the mob.
(3) 
Check outbound movement to halt transportation of loot and inbound movement to add strength to rioters.
(4) 
Use photography to record actions of crowd.
(5) 
Prepare for dispersal action by clearing likely sniper spots.
D. 
Dispersal. Once containment and isolation has been effected, police strength build-up offensive measures must be taken to disperse the mob. Movement during the dispersal operation should be slow and deliberate. After the mob has been ordered to disperse and the order to move ignored, police engagement with the mob must commence. The following are guidelines for a dispersal effort:
(1) 
Assembly of men as to riot control formations should be predetermined as to best control formation to put into effect, i.e., squad diamond, squad line, squad wedge or squad diagonal.
(2) 
Assembled group of officers will march to a point of safe distance, but within plain view of mob. Officers shall be armed with rifles and riot guns or tear guns, but such guns should not be loaded at this time.
(3) 
Group leader reads orders to mob to disperse and gives specified time in which to do so.
(4) 
Upon expiration of time and order has been ignored, group leader will order men with rifles and shotguns to load and employ tactical measures to disperse mob.
(5) 
Controlled avenues of escape should always be left open for fleeing mob members.
E. 
Intelligence. Responsibility for the gathering of information relating to disorders and the leaders of same rests with all personnel. All officers should be watchful for changing attitudes in the community and immediately report to the Sergeants such information as:
(1) 
Probable location and cause of disturbances.
(2) 
Probable type and number of persons who will be involved.
(3) 
Probable assembly areas for crowds.
(4) 
Known leaders.
(5) 
Prominent people who are friendly or sympathetic with the leaders of the disturbance.
(6) 
Location of arms and equipment available or which may be seized by rioters.
(7) 
Location of important buildings, fuels and explosives that could create a security problem.
F. 
Arrest procedures. Every arresting officer should be prepared to prove who he arrested, where, when and for what violation. To that end, the arresting officer will accompany the defendant, in transportation provided either by vans of the Sheriff's office or available police vehicles, to headquarters, where acceptable police procedure for photographing, fingerprinting and arrest reporting shall be completed.