(a) 
There is created the police department, the head of which shall be the chief of police.
(b) 
The chief of police shall be appointed by the city manager and confirmed by the council.
(c) 
The chief of police may be dismissed by the city manager without confirmation of such dismissal by the council.
(1967 Code, sec. 23-1; Ordinance 82-430 adopted 4/13/82; 1994 Code, sec. 32.01)
(a) 
All regular police officers shall be appointed and dismissed by the chief of police without confirmation of such appointment or dismissal by the city council.
(b) 
There shall be as many members of the police department as the city council shall deem fit and proper.
(c) 
Police officers shall receive such compensation for their services as may be fixed by the city council.
(1967 Code, sec. 23-2; Ordinance 82-430 adopted 4/13/82; 1994 Code, sec. 32.02)
The duties of the assistant chief of police shall be, in the absence of the chief of police, to act as the chief of police, and he or she shall be clothed with all the authority and duties of a peace officer, coextensive with the chief of police. The assistant chief of police shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him or her by the city council, the chief of police, or the city manager and shall receive such compensation for services as may be fixed by the city council and shall make bond as required by law.
(1967 Code, sec. 23-3; 1994 Code, sec. 32.03)
The duties of the chief of police shall be to enforce the provisions of this code, any other ordinances of the city, and federal and state law, to maintain good order within the city, and to see that all police officers and employees in the police department effectually and satisfactorily discharge their duties as such, and he or she shall have such other duties as may be imposed by this code.
(1967 Code, sec. 23-4; 1994 Code, sec. 32.04)
(a) 
General authority.
The chief of police and all police officers duly commissioned under authority of the city shall have all the powers and duties conferred by the general laws of the state on city marshals.
(b) 
Enforcement of laws.
(1) 
Members of the police department shall be diligent in seeing that the laws of the state, this code, and any other ordinances of the city are enforced within the city, and for such purpose are vested with the same authority and power as the chief of police.
(2) 
All police officers are declared to be peace officers, within the purview of the state law.
(3) 
All violations of this code or any other ordinances of the city or the laws of the state shall be promptly reported to the proper authorities.
(c) 
Arrest without warrant.
The chief of police or any duly commissioned police officer shall have the authority to make an arrest without warrant of persons found in suspicious places, and under circumstances which reasonably give probable cause to 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 laws.
(d) 
Supervision by chief of police.
All police officers and other employees of the police department shall be subject to the orders and directions of the chief of police at all times.
(1967 Code, secs. 23-5–23-8; Ordinance 262 adopted 1/24/67; 1994 Code, sec. 32.05)
All police officers of the city shall be uniformed when on duty, except those designated by the chief of police to serve in plain clothes, in such manner as may be prescribed by the police regulations of the city.
(1967 Code, sec. 23-9; 1994 Code, sec. 32.06)
(a) 
The chief of police is authorized to assign the regularly employed law enforcement personnel of the department to assist any other county or municipality in this state, when a state of civil emergency in the other county or municipality has been declared by proper authority, upon request by the proper authority, and when, in the opinion of the proper authority, a need exists in the other county or municipality for the services of additional law enforcement officers to protect the health, life, and property of the 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 times of natural disaster or man-made calamity.
(b) 
Whenever any law enforcement officer of any other county or municipality is assigned to the city under authority of an order adopted by the governing body of the other county or municipality, to assist under circumstances as described above which may exist in the city, such officer shall be a peace officer of the city and shall be under the command of the chief of police while so assigned, and the officer shall have all the powers of a regular law enforcement officer of the city as fully as though he or she were within the county or municipality where regularly employed, and his or her qualifications, respectively, for office where regularly employed shall constitute qualification for office in the city, and no other oath, bond, or compensation shall be made.
(c) 
When any law enforcement officer of the city is ordered by proper authority to perform peace officer duties outside the territorial limits of the city, he or she shall be entitled to the same wage, salary, pension, and all other compensation and all other rights for such service, including injury or death benefits, the same as though the service had been rendered within the limits of the city, and the officer shall also be paid for any reasonable expenses of travel, food, or lodging, as well as for damage to equipment and clothing, and medical expenses, which he or she may incur while on duty outside the limits, or while traveling to or from the assignment.
(d) 
When any law enforcement officer is assigned to the city from another county or city under the circumstances described above and upon request of the proper authority of the county or city, the city will, upon proper request therefor, reimburse the county or city furnishing the services of the law enforcement officer for actual expenses of travel, food, and lodging and for such costs or damage to equipment and clothing resulting from the services of the law enforcement officer in the city and for which the county or city where the officer is regularly employed has paid.
(1967 Code, sec. 23-9.2; Ordinance 318 adopted –/–/–; 1994 Code, sec. 32.08)