[Code 1999 §200.005; CC 1979 §170.010; Ord. No. 202 §1, 12-7-1955]
There is hereby created in the City of Seymour, Missouri, the
office of Chief of Police and Police Officers.
The Police of the City may be appointed in such numbers, for
such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance. They
shall have power to serve and execute all warrants, subpoenas, writs
or other process and to make arrests in the same manner as the Marshal.
They may exercise such powers in areas leased or owned by the municipality
outside of the boundaries of such municipality. The Marshal and Police
Officers shall be conservators of the peace and shall be active and
vigilant in the preservation of good order within the City.
[Code 1999 §200.120; Ord. No. 444 §§1 — 4, 11-12-1992]
A. A municipal
officer of the City of Seymour shall have the authority in accordance
with the departmental procedures to respond to an emergency situation
outside the boundaries of the City of Seymour while on duty.
B. The authority
contained herein shall permit the response by one (1) or more municipal
Police Officers to an emergency situation within any incorporated
area within a twenty-five (25) mile radius from the corporate limits
of Seymour. The Chief of the Police Department or his/her designee
may in his/her discretion authorize additional response beyond this
designated area.
C. Police
Officers shall not leave the City inhabitants with inadequate Police
protection or be absent for extended periods of time, but that the
response shall be in aid of, and to assist, the authorities of the
County or the municipality in which the emergency situation is located.
No Police Officer of the City shall be authorized to make an arrest
by reason of this authorization to respond, nor shall he/she be authorized
to use his/her weapon except to respond to a threat of a serious physical
harm to himself/herself or others or to make an arrest for a felony
violation involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious
physical harm.
Persons licensed and commissioned as Law Enforcement Officers
within the City before July 1, 2002, may retain licensure with one
hundred twenty (120) hours of basic training.