A Police Department is hereby established in and for the Township of Sadsbury. The Chief of Police shall be the chief executive officer of the Police Department and shall, under the direction of the Board of Supervisors, be in charge of the Police Department and supervise its members in the exercise of their powers, duties and authority.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-30-1981 by Ord. No. 1981-3]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
In addition to the position of Chief of Police, the following classifications shall be established: Sergeant, Corporal, Patrolman First Class and Patrolman. The priority of authority among such subordinate classifications shall be in the order above-listed. The number of persons to serve in each of the foregoing subordinate classifications, on a full-time and/or part-time basis, and the compensation of each shall be as determined by the Board of Supervisors from time to time by resolution.
The maintenance, equipping, training, hiring, disciplining and removing of members of the police force and guidelines thereto shall be set forth in regulations promulgated from time to time as the need arises by the Board of Supervisors, said regulations by reference thereto being a part of this article.
[Adopted 9-13-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-2]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Sadsbury Township, by the adoption of this article, evidences its intent to participate in Municipal Drug Task Force activities in cooperation with the Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and/or the Office of the District Attorney of Chester County which is designed to interdict the illegal use of and trafficking in narcotics and other illegal drugs and substances within its municipal boundaries and within the municipal boundaries of nearby communities with which it is authorized to cooperatively act pursuant to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301 et seq.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Sadsbury Township is hereby authorized to enter into a Municipal Drug Task Force Agreement with the Office of District Attorney of Chester County, Office of the Attorney General and the Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the "agreement"), subject to approval of the form and content of the agreement by the Board of Supervisors. This agreement may, when approved by the Board of Supervisors, include intergovernmental cooperative activities with adjacent and nearby municipal governments as a part of a regional effort to interdict illegal drug activities.
Sadsbury Township is hereby authorized to utilize the services of the Sadsbury Township Police Department for such Municipal Drug Task Force activities as are approved by the Board of Supervisors, with the advice and consent of the Sadsbury Township Chief of Police, under the terms and conditions set forth in the agreement and in compliance with the Municipal Police Jurisdiction Act, Act of June 15, 1982, P.L. 512, No. 141, as amended, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 8951 et seq.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Pursuant to the terms of the agreement which, upon its execution, shall be considered incorporated herein by reference, Sadsbury Township, acting through its Chief of Police, shall establish appropriate procedures to comply with the agreement and relevant regulations, direction and guidance from the Office of the Attorney General and/or the Office of District Attorney. The agreement may be amended from time to time, subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors, which agreement, as amended, shall automatically be incorporated as a part hereof without the necessity of amendment of this article.
The term of the agreement authorized by this article shall commence on the date it is completely executed by all parties thereto and may be terminated by Sadsbury Township and any other party to the agreement at any time subject to 30 days' prior written notice to the other parties to the agreement.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The purposes and objectives of this article and the agreement authorized to be made and executed hereby include region-wide coordination of municipal police activities for the purpose of combating illegal narcotics and substance and drug trafficking. The agreement shall be financed with funds provided by the Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and/or the Office of District Attorney of Chester County, subject to the appropriation and availability of funds for Task Force purposes. Sadsbury Township shall have no financial responsibility or liability to provide funds to finance activities of the Task Force or any of its police officers participating in Task Force activities. Expenditure of Township funds shall be solely within the discretion of the Board of Supervisors.
Sadsbury Township shall retain control and responsibility over the management, activities, control and direction of its police officer employees when involved in Municipal Drug Task Force activities and all such police officer employees shall remain under the specific direction and control of the Chief of Police of Sadsbury Township, except as he shall otherwise direct during operations of the Task Force.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts hereof. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Board of Supervisors that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
Nothing herein contained nor anything contained in the municipal agreement referred to herein or in the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act[1] or Municipal Police Jurisdiction Act[2] shall be construed expressly or by implication to waive any governmental immunity or limitation of liability inuring to the benefit of Sadsbury Township, its officers, agents, employees or police officers which immunity and limitations of liability are in all respects preserved.[3]