The purpose and intent of this division is to ratify the establishment of a police department and reaffirm prior actions of the governing body to secure the general health, safety and welfare of the residents of the city by:
(1) 
Explicitly creating a police department and outlining both its authority and jurisdiction;
(2) 
Explicitly creating the position of chief of police to oversee and manage the police department; and
(3) 
Outlining the duties and responsibilities of both the chief of police and officers.
(Ordinance 11-2012 adopted 10/11/12)
Prior municipal government establishment and creation of a police department of the city is hereby ratified. The police department shall be composed of the chief of police and other officers and employees as the city manager may provide. The chief of police shall be the head of the police department. The jurisdiction of the police department shall be the corporate limits of the city and that property lying outside the city limits which is owned by the city.
(Ordinance 11-2012 adopted 10/11/12; Ordinance 02-2024 adopted 8/8/2024)
No person will be certified as a police officer who has not complied with the basic requirements established by the state for police officers and by the city acting through the chief of police.
(Ordinance 11-2012 adopted 10/11/12)
The appointment of, and duties of the chief of police shall be as set forth in article 1.05, division 6 of this Code of Ordinances.
(Ordinance 11-2012 adopted 10/11/12)
(a) 
Individual officers constituting the city police department are invested with all the power and authority given to them as peace officers under the laws of the state. Inherent with this power and authority is the obligation to preserve the peace, to enforce the ordinances and regulations of the city, the laws of the state and of the United States, to take legal custody of offenders and to secure the citizens from violence.
(b) 
All personnel of the police department shall be bound by the most current directives, orders, rules, regulations and procedures for the operation of the police department as may be promulgated or as hereinafter amended by the chief of police, and failure to abide thereby shall subject the violating personnel to such disciplinary action as may be determined by the chief of police within the limits of state law and city ordinances.
(Ordinance 11-2012 adopted 10/11/12)