(a)
The following is adopted as the classification plan for the city police department.
Classification | Number |
|---|---|
Police officer: (trainee/cadet, probationary, nonprobationary) | 59 |
Corporal | 6 |
Sergeant | 8 |
Lieutenant | 3 |
Total | 76 |
(b)
The number and base salary of positions allocated to each classification shall be as set by the city council in each new fiscal year budget, and classification ordinance.
(c)
The following is a listing of the unclassified positions within the police department:
Job Title | Number |
|---|---|
Chief of police | 1 |
Asst. chief | 1 |
Office assistant III | 1 |
Office assistant II | 3 |
Secretary – CID | 1 |
Communications operators | 10 |
Civilian specialist (property room) | 1 |
Civilian specialist (jailer) | 1 |
Civilian specialist (fleet manager) | 1 |
Data processing and special services manager | 1 |
Parking attendant | 1 |
(1972 Code, sec. 19-2; Ordinance 2641 adopted 12/1/1987; Ordinance 2697 adopted 11/15/1988; Ordinance 2858 adopted 10/15/1991; Ordinance 2912 adopted 10/6/1992; Ordinance 3074 adopted 11/1/1994; 1995 Code, sec. 31.02; Ordinance 3312 adopted 4/21/1998; Ordinance 4647 adopted 6/16/2015; Ordinance 4660 adopted 12/1/2015; Ordinance 4704 adopted 11/21/2017; Ordinance 4797 adopted 1/7/2020; Ordinance 4901 adopted 8/17/2021; Ordinance 5073 adopted 8/6/2024; Ordinance 5115 adopted 5/6/2025)
The city manager is hereby authorized to direct the chief of police of the city to detail regularly employed law enforcement officers of the police department of the city to assist any other county or municipality when, in the opinion of the mayor or other officer authorized to declare a state of civil emergency in such other county or municipality, there exists in such other county or municipality a need for the services of additional law enforcement officers to protect the health, life and property of such other county or municipality, its inhabitants, and the visitors thereto, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force and violence, or threat thereof by three or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during time of natural disaster or man-made calamity, and a request for additional law enforcement officers is made to the city manager by such mayor or officer authorized to declare a state of emergency in such other county or municipality, and when in the opinion of the mayor or other authorized officer it would not impair or endanger the police protection in the city to dispatch such law enforcement officers to the county or municipality requesting assistance.
(Resolution 1405 adopted 3/17/1970; 1972 Code, sec. 19-1; 1995 Code, sec. 31.01)