(1)
Personnel. The Police Department shall consist of the Chief of Police
and such police officers as the Village Board may prescribe by ordinance
or resolution.
(2)
Salaries. The Chief and the police officers shall receive salaries
as fixed by the Village Board.
(3)
Disposition of fees. All fees, bail deposits and other special remuneration
or funds collected or received by the Department or any officers thereof
shall be deposited with the Clerk of Courts not less than weekly.
(4)
Tenure of Chief and police officers. After a six-month probationary
period, the Chief of Police and all police officers shall hold office
during good behavior, subject to suspension or removal for cause by
the Police Review Committee.
(1)
The Chief shall possess the powers, enjoy the privileges and be subject
to the liabilities conferred and imposed by law upon marshals and
constables.
(2)
He shall exercise supervisory control over all the personnel of his
Department and may adopt, subject to the approval of the Village Board,
rules and regulations for the government, discipline, equipment and
uniforms of police officers.
(3)
He shall obey all lawful written orders of the Village Board.
(4)
He shall cause the public peace to be preserved and see that all
laws and ordinances of the Village and the State are enforced and,
whenever any violation thereof shall come to his knowledge, he shall
cause the requisite complaint to be made and see that the evidence
is procured for the successful prosecution of the offender.
(5)
He shall be solely responsible for the care and condition of the
equipment used by his Department.
(6)
He shall keep an accurate and complete record of all complaints,
arrests, traffic violations, convictions and dispositions of the Department.
(7)
He shall submit a monthly report to the Village Board of activities
and transactions of the Department during the preceding month.
(8)
As provided in sec. 3.03 of this Code, he shall annually file the
recommended Department budget with the Clerk-Treasurer.
(9)
He shall cause the report of police pursuit engagements for the previous
12 months to be sent to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
on or before August 15, 1999 and on or before August 15 of each year
as required under § 85.07(8), Wis. Stats.
[Added by Ord. No. 164]
(10)
Beginning on or before June 30, 2002, and on or before each June
30 thereafter, he shall review the Department's written policies
on emergency vehicles exceeding speed limits in general and police
pursuit in particular and shall revise such policies if appropriate.
[Added by Ord. No. 164]
(1)
General powers and duties. Each officer of the Department shall possess
the powers conferred on marshals and constables by law, shall preserve
the public peace and shall enforce the laws and ordinances of the
State and the Village, subject to the orders, rules and regulations
of the Chief, the Village President and the Village Board.
(2)
Power of arrest. The Chief of Police and any police officer shall
arrest any person in the Village found in the act of violating any
law or ordinance of the Village or State or aiding or abetting in
such violation, and they shall arrest, without warrant, all persons
whom they have reasonable grounds to believe have violated any law
or ordinance and who will not be apprehended unless immediately arrested,
shall take all arrested persons in charge and confine them, and shall
within a reasonable time bring such persons before the court having
jurisdiction thereof to be dealt with according to law.
(3)
Reporting dangerous conditions. The Chief of Police and any police
officer shall report all street and sidewalk obstructions, unlighted
street lamps, unlawful street signs or signals and defective or dangerous
streets and sidewalks to the Director of Public Works.
(4)
Assisting Fire Department. Whenever necessary, any police officer
shall assist the Fire Department in maintaining order at the scene
of a fire.
(5)
Permits and licenses. The police officers shall ensure that the necessary
permits and licenses issued by the State or the Village are in the
possession of or are properly displayed by any person engaged in an
activity or business within the Village for which a permit or license
is required and that the terms of such license or permit are complied
with.
In accordance with §§ 66.1019(1) and 66.0513,
Wis. Stats., and policies established by the Village Board, the Chief
of Police may respond to requests for police personnel from the County
or any municipality or town within the County, and may request said
jurisdictions to provide police personnel to the Village.
[Added by Ord. No. 152]
(1)
The Police Department shall cooperate with, participate in and enforce
the provisions of § 301.45 and 301.46, Wis. Stats., and
those portions of the Wisconsin Administrative Code promulgated by
the Departments of Justice and corrections to carry out the sex offender
registration and notification program.
(2)
The Police Department shall develop and make available for the use
of persons entitled to request information about sex offenders released
into the Village under § 301.46(5), Wis. Stats., such request
forms as may be necessary to enable such persons to have access to
information provided to the Police Department by the Departments of
Justice and Corrections regarding sex offenders residing, working
or attending school in the Village.
(3)
The Police Department shall maintain a file on all sex offenders
about whom it has been provided registration information by the Departments
of Justice and Corrections and a list of all entities and persons
under § 301.46(4) and (5), Wis. Stats., within the Village
who may be entitled to, or who may request such information as required
by law as necessary for the protection of the public.
[Added by Ord. No. 200]
The Police Department shall be authorized to collect an administrative
fee for the performance of certain services as follows:
(1)
For the processing and recovery of worthless checks on behalf of
complainants who are residents or merchants residing or doing business
in the Village as an alternative to citation and prosecution of such
complaints the fee shall be $20.
(2)
Pursuant to §§ 814.70, 814.705 and 814.71, Wis. Stats.:
(a)
Subject to the limitations set forth in Ch. 814, Wis. Stats., for
the service of process, the fee shall be $20 per defendant.
(b)
For serving an execution on a judgment demanding payment thereof
or other writ not provided for, the fee shall be $20.
(c)
For travel in serving any summons, writ or other process, except
criminal warrants, and except as limited by the provisions of Ch.
814, Wis. Stats., the Police Department shall charge $0.365 per mile
actually and necessarily traveled.
Any person who shall violate any provisions of this chapter
or any rule, regulation or order made hereunder