[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3101]
The Police Department of Aspinwall Borough is hereby established.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3102]
The Mayor of Aspinwall shall be the official head of the Police Department. The Chief of Police shall supervise the day-to-day activities of the Police Department and all police officers and department employees, subject to the direction of the Mayor. The Chief shall exercise all the powers and authorities granted by the laws of the Commonwealth and the ordinances of the Borough.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3103]
1. 
Appointment. The Chief of Police shall be appointed by the Borough Council and shall serve unless suspended or removed by Council. Before appointing, suspending or removing the Chief, Council shall seek the recommendations of the Mayor.
2. 
Qualifications. Any person appointed to the office of Chief of Police need not be a resident of the Borough at the time of appointment but must become one within one year of the date of appointment.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3104]
The Police Department shall consist of the number of sworn police officers and employees, who are not sworn police officers, as may be authorized by Council from time to time. Council may establish a personnel classification system for officers and employees, but all personnel shall be subordinate to the Chief of Police. Council shall fix the total weekly hours of employment that shall apply to police officers and employees.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3105; as amended by Ord. 835, 1/13/1988, § 3105; by Ord. 873, 7/10/1991, § 3105; and by Ord. 935, 2/11/1998, § 3105; and by Ord. 970, 12/6/2000]
1. 
Appointment. Police officers shall be appointed by Borough Council, subject to the civil service provisions of the Pennsylvania Borough Code.
2. 
Qualifications. Qualifications for all ranks and positions in the Police Department shall be determined by the Chief of Police and Mayor and shall be stated in the Department's Manual of Rules and Regulations. All Borough police officers hired on or after December 7, 2000, shall reside within an eight-mile air radius of Aspinwall Municipal Building within six months of the date of their successful completion of the requisite probationary period. Police Officers hired prior to December 7, 2000, must reside in one of the following boroughs or townships: Aspinwall, Fox Chapel, Sharpsburg, Blawnox, O'Hara or Indiana.
3. 
Compensation. Council shall fix the compensation for all police officers and employees.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3106]
1. 
Borough Council, subject to civil service requirements, may suspend, reduce in rank or discharge any member of the Police Department.
2. 
In addition to Council's powers, the Mayor may, for cause and without pay, suspend a police officer until the next regular meeting of Borough Council. At that time Council may, subject to civil service requirements, suspend, discharge, reduce in rank or reinstate with pay the police officer.
3. 
Any police officer suspended by the Mayor may not be reinstated by Council at a date earlier than 10 working days from the date fixed by the Mayor for the suspension to commence. In any case where the Council has reinstated a police officer, after having been suspended by the Mayor, the Mayor shall not thereafter suspend such police officer for reasons arising from the same act for which the first suspension was made, or for reasons that the Council, in reinstating such police officer, shall have determined not to be grounds for suspension.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3107; as amended by Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
The operation of the Police Department and the conduct of all police officers and employees shall be in accordance with the current "Police Department Manual of Rules and Procedures." The Chief of Police shall be responsible for promulgating, revising, modifying and maintaining the Police Department Manual of Rules and Procedures, subject to approval by the Borough Council.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3108; as amended by Ord. 995, 12/10/2003]
Upon an alarm of fire, the Chief of the Aspinwall Fire Department shall become the supreme police officer of the Borough for the subject scene of a fire and/or alarm, and shall continue in such capacity until the fire is extinguished and/or the alarm cancelled. It shall be the duty of the police officer(s) of the Borough on duty to report immediately to the Fire Chief or other officer or member of the Fire Department in charge at the scene of a fire and/or alarm and to act under his/her direction. The said police officers shall not absent themselves temporarily or permanently from the scene of a fire and/or alarm without permission from the Fire Chief or other officer or member of the Fire Department acting in the Chief's absence.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3109]
The Mayor may, in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania Borough Code, appoint special police who shall serve temporarily during an emergency in which the safety and welfare of the Borough and public are endangered. Compensation for special police officers shall be determined by Council.
[Ord. 806, 6/11/1986, § 3110]
Borough Council may appoint special school police who shall have the duty of controlling and directing traffic at or near schools. The appointment, duties, compensation of such officers shall be as provided by the Pennsylvania Borough Code, 53 P.S. § 65101 et seq., as amended. Special school police shall be under the direction and supervision of the Mayor and Chief of Police.