The chief of police and other police officers shall perform such duties and possess such powers and authority as the city council may, by ordinance, require and confer, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state. They shall have and exercise all of the authority conferred upon such officers by the laws of the state and the laws of the United States, and shall perform all duties imposed upon them by such laws and by this code and other ordinances of the city.
(Ordinance 684, secs. 7, 25, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-1; 1983 Code, sec. 22-1)
In the prevention and suppression of crime and the arrest of offenders, the chief of police and other police officers shall have, possess and execute like power, authority and jurisdiction as the sheriff of the county.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 7, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-2; 1983 Code, sec. 22-2)
The chief of police and other police officers shall be active in quelling riots, disorders and disturbances of the peace within the city limits and shall take into custody all persons so offending against the peace of the city. It shall be their duty to arrest, without warrant, all violators of the public peace, and all who obstruct or interfere with them in the execution of the duties of their office or who shall be guilty of any disorderly conduct or disturbance whatsoever.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 7, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-5; 1983 Code, sec. 22-3)
To prevent a breach of the peace, preserve quiet and good order, prevent injury to the public health or morals or to prevent fires, the chief of police and other police officers shall have the authority to close any theater, ballroom or other place or building of public resort.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 7, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-6; 1983 Code, sec. 22-4)
The chief of police shall, in person or by deputy, promptly and faithfully execute all writs and processes issued by the municipal court and he and the other police officers of the city shall have like power, with the sheriff of the county, to execute warrants. Summons for municipal court jurors may be made verbally upon each juror in person or by first class United States mail, as the municipal judge may direct.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 7, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-7; Ordinance 2725, sec. 1, adopted 2/26/1959; 1983 Code, sec. 22-5)
Whenever, in the presence of a police officer of the city or within his view, one person is about to commit an offense against the person or property of another, it is the duty of such police officer to prevent it and, for this purpose, he may summon any number of citizens of the city to his aid. He must use the amount of force necessary to prevent the commission of the offense, and no greater.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 14, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-8; 1983 Code, sec. 22-6)
Every police officer of the city, when he may have been informed, in any manner, that a threat has been made by one person to do some injury to the person or property of another, shall prevent he threatened injury, if within his power, and, in order to do this, he may call in aid any number of citizens in the city. He may take such measures as a person about to be injured might for the prevention of an offense.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 13, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-9; 1983 Code, sec. 22-7)
The conduct of police officers in preventing offenses about to be committed in their presence or within their view shall be regulated by the same rules as are prescribed for the action of the person about to be injured. They may use all force necessary to repel the aggression.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 15, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-10; 1983 Code, sec. 22-8)
It shall be unlawful for any police officer to beat or strike any prisoner in his custody, or any other person, with a gun or club, unless the same is absolutely necessary to protect himself from bodily injury, and any police officer violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to immediate dismissal.
(Ordinance 684, sec. 11, adopted 3/27/1942; 1959 Code, sec. 25-11; 1983 Code, sec. 22-9)
Those persons regularly occupying the position of and working as desk sergeants in the police station, or persons acting in that capacity who are authorized to perform the duties of a desk sergeant, shall give a bond in some regularly accredited surety company, authorized to do business under the laws of the state, in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). Such bond shall be conditioned upon the effective accounting of all moneys coming into the hands of such person. The premium on such bonds shall be paid by the city.
(Ordinance 960, sec. 6, adopted 12/22/1949; 1959 Code, sec. 25-12; 1983 Code, sec. 22-10)