Arrests without warrant may be made by the chief of police or any other police officer of the city when offenses against the state and federal laws or ordinances of the city are committed in their presence or where persons are found in suspicious places and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons have been guilty of some felony or breach of the peace, or threaten or are about to commit some offense against the law.
(1996 Code, art. 1.1500)
The city manager is hereby authorized to direct the chief of police of the city to detail regularly employed law enforcement officers of the city police department 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 (3) or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during the 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. In the absence of the city manager, the chief of police of the city is authorized to perform the duties of the city manager as provided for in this section when directed to do so by the mayor pro tem of the city.
(1996 Code, art. 1.1300)