[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Silver Spring 3-11-1969 by Ord. No. 22 (Ch. I, Art. 1, Sec. 102,
of the 1973 Codified Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
A police department is hereby established in and for the Township
of Silver Spring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The Chief of Police
shall be the chief executive of the Police Department. He shall, under
the direction of the Township Board of Supervisors, be in charge of
the police force and have supervision over its members in the exercise
of their powers, duties and authority.
Subordinate to the Chief of Police in the Police Department,
the following classifications are hereby established: patrol officer
and such additional classifications to which the Township Supervisors
shall at any specific time have appointed one or more police officers.
The order of authority among such subordinate classifications shall
be in the order above listed. The number of persons to serve in each
of such subordinate classifications on a full-time and/or a part-time
basis, and the compensation of each, shall be as determined by the
Township Supervisors from time to time.
Nothing herein contained shall affect the authority of the Township
Supervisors to appoint special policemen and/or utilize the Silver
Spring Township Fire Police during emergencies.[1]
