[R.O. 2009 § 2.32.010; Ord. No.
3942 § 1, 1979]
There is created and established the Department of Public Safety
for the City. The Department of Public Safety shall perform all of
the duties and responsibilities of both the Police and Fire Departments
of the City and shall have all the powers, duties and responsibilities
conferred upon the Police and Fire Departments by virtue of the Municipal
Code of the City or other ordinances of this City or by State law
and shall have such other and additional powers, duties and responsibilities
as may be lawfully imposed upon it by any administrative directive,
resolution, rule, ordinance or law.
[R.O. 2009 § 2.32.020; Ord. No.
3942 § 2, 1979]
The distinction, as it has heretofore existed, between Police
Officers and firemen in the City is abolished and the duties and responsibilities
of the Policemen and firemen are combined in the persons of Public
Safety Officers. Such Public Safety Officers shall perform such duties
and responsibilities as shall be conferred upon them from time to
time by the Director of Public Safety of the City; provided that in
addition thereto, such Public Safety Officers shall have and perform
such duties as are imposed upon Policemen and firemen by the Municipal
Code of the City or other ordinances of this City or by law.
[R.O. 2009 § 2.32.030; Ord. No.
3942 § 3, 1979]
There is established the office of Director of Public Safety.
The Director of Public Safety shall be the Chief of Police and the
Chief of the Fire Department and shall exercise and have all of the
duties of the Chief of Police and Chief of the Fire Department as
such may be imposed or authorized by ordinance or by law. The term
and office of both the Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department,
as used in any law or ordinance of this City, shall mean the Director
of Public Safety. The Director of Public Safety is authorized to make
and implement rules and regulations in accordance and compliance with
the laws and ordinances governing the Police Department and the Fire
Department of this City, to provide for the cross-training, mutual
cooperation, integration and consolidation of the Police Department
and the Fire Department, all to implement the purposes of this Article.
The Director of Public Safety shall be selected and appointed by and
serve at the pleasure of the City Manager.
