[R.O. 2005 §20-21; CC 1997 §20-21]
A. 
The City of Ellisville, Missouri, hereby contracts and agrees to cooperate with the City of St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis County, Missouri, and that each and every City, Town and Village within St. Louis County, Missouri, for certain common Police services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. This contract shall become effective with respect to each such municipality or County upon the passage of a like ordinance by the legislative body of such municipality or County authorizing such contract by such municipality or County.
B. 
The consideration for this contract shall be the mutual agreements of the parties hereto for the services to be given for the protection of lives and property by the Police Department of each participating municipality or County and no compensation shall occur to be paid by any participating municipality or County to any other.
C. 
This contract, insofar as it is applicable to any particular municipality, may be terminated at any time by any party hereto thirty (30) days after service upon the Clerk of each remaining contracting municipality or County of a certified copy of any ordinance terminating the agreement of such municipality or County.
[R.O. 2005 §20-22; CC 1997 §20-22]
The members of the Police force of the City of Ellisville shall respond, if consistent with the public safety of the City of Ellisville, to request for assistance within the boundary limits of any other contracting municipality or County pursuant to the directions and regulations provided by the office of the Chief of Police of the City of Ellisville.
[R.O. 2005 §20-23; CC 1997 §20-23]
It shall be the duty of the members of the Police force of the City of Ellisville to perform Police services in any contracting municipality or County when requested by such municipality or County and authorized to do so by the office of the Chief of Police of the City of Ellisville.
[R.O. 2005 §20-24; CC 1997 §20-24]
Each Ellisville Police Officer performing services in any other municipality or County in accordance with the terms of this contract shall have all of the power, rights, privileges, duties and immunities as the members of the Police Department of the municipality or County requesting assistance, but shall remain in the employment and under the direction, supervision and control of the office of the Chief of Police of the City of Ellisville, Missouri.
[R.O. 2005 §20-25; CC 1997 §20-25]
A. 
Equipment and property utilized in carrying out the common Police service provided by the agreement shall be at the risk of the municipality or County owning same and any loss or damage thereto shall be born by such owner municipality or County; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the liability of any municipality or County or its agents, servants or employees arising out of tortious conduct.
B. 
No municipality or County participating in this agreement shall be liable to any other for failure to respond to any call by the owners or for delay or negligence or mistake in receiving or responding to any call, nor shall this agreement be interpreted as being an agreement for the benefit of any third (3rd) person.
C. 
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to mean that a Police Officer of any municipality or County participating in this agreement who is injured, killed or who dies of injuries sustained while performing services in the City of Ellisville under this agreement shall be covered by any insurance provided by the City of Ellisville for its Police Officers.
D. 
No Police Officer of the City of Ellisville otherwise entitled to the benefits and protection of any insurance carried by the City of Ellisville shall be deprived thereof by reason of the fact that such officer was injured, killed or death occurred as a result of injuries sustained in another municipality or County, provided that any such injury or death occurred while such officer was performing services pursuant to this agreement.
[R.O. 2005 §20-26; CC 1997 §20-26]
A. 
The Police Department is authorized to cooperate with such law enforcement agencies in the St. Louis metropolitan area as are members of the St. Louis Metropolitan Major Case squad formed in or about 1965 and made up of specially trained Law Enforcement Officers from law enforcement agencies in the St. Louis metropolitan area for the purpose of providing investigative resources to its member law enforcement agencies where necessary to effect an expedient solution to more serious crimes, including murder, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, burglary or other crimes of a magnitude to constitute a community threat, for the purpose of providing assistance in the intensive professional investigation of such crimes under such circumstances and subject to such guidelines as are designated by the St. Louis Metropolitan Major Case Squad, subject to the provisions of Section 70.835, RSMo., 1986 and provided that the Governing Body of the particular political subdivision where the crime under investigation occurred as by order, in the case of a County or by ordinance in the case of a City, entered into such a cooperative agreement with the St. Louis Metropolitan Major Case Squad.
B. 
The City members of the St. Louis Metropolitan Major Case Squad shall be designated by the Chief of Police and may be removed by him/her at any time. At no time shall the Chief of Police allow the operations of the St. Louis Metropolitan Major Case Squad to leave the City with inadequate Police protection.
C. 
No member of the St. Louis Metropolitan Major Case Squad shall be considered an employee of the City for any purpose, unless they are members of the regular City of Ellisville Police Department.