The city, acting by and through its mayor, the mayor pro-tem or, in the absence or inability to act, the city manager or, in his/her absence or inability to act, the chief of police, may send or direct any of its regularly employed law enforcement officers to assist any other county or municipality, when a request is received for assistance from the mayor, or other officer authorized to declare a state of civil emergency, in such other municipality or county, representing that there exists in such other county or municipality a need for additional law enforcement officers to protect health, life, and property of such other county or municipality or its inhabitants, and the visitors thereof, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force and violence, or threat by three (3) or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during the time of natural or man-made calamity.
(Ordinance 1207 adopted 10/17/19)
The city hereby provides that the police department of the city shall be and is hereby designated as a participating member and agency of a mutual aid law enforcement task force to cooperate in accordance with section 362.002 of the Local Government Code with the cities of the county and the county sheriff’s office. Members of the police department of the city shall have only such additional investigative authority in the corporate limits of such member cities and the county as shall be from time to time prescribed by the mayor or chief of police of such cities and the county judge or sheriff, and as authorized by such mutual aid agreements approved by the respective governing bodies.
(Ordinance 1207 adopted 10/17/19)
Law enforcement officers so sent to another municipality or county shall be in all things subject to the foregoing act and such officer or officers shall be and become peace officers of such other county or municipality under the command of the law enforcement officer therein who is in charge in that city or county and, as provided in said act, shall be vested with all the powers of a regular law enforcement officer in such other county or municipality to which sent, and such law enforcement officers of the city shall be considered under the terms of the foregoing described act as being in compliance therewith and shall be entitled to the same wage, salary, pension and all other compensations while performing police duties outside of the territorial limits of the city as though the same services were being rendered in the city, and the city shall pay to such officers such wages, salary, pension, and other benefits, together with medical, travel, food, lodging and other expenses incurred on account of performing services outside of the territorial limits of the city, and the city shall be reimbursed by the other county or municipality requesting the services out of which such payments and expenses arose, as provided by state law.
(Ordinance 1207 adopted 10/17/19)