(a)
Every
policeman of the city is hereby authorized to arrest, without warrant,
all persons 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 laws.
(b)
This
section is adopted pursuant to the police power of the city and to
the power specifically granted to towns and cities by art. 14.03 of
the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.
(Ordinance adopted 7/25/66)
There is hereby established a police reserve force for the city.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
1)
Members of the police reserve force shall have be [sic] appointed
and/or relieved at the discretion of the chief of police and shall
serve as police officers during the actual discharge of official duties.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
2)
The police reserve force shall not exceed in number the total
number of regular police officers authorized.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
3)
Members of the police reserve force shall serve at the discretion
of the chief of police and may be called into active service at any
time the chief of police considers it necessary to substitute or have
additional or supplementary police officers to preserve the peace
and enforce the law.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
4)
Members of the police reserve force may serve with compensation,
at the discretion of the chief of police. The city may provide workman’s
compensation assistance to members of the police reserve force who
sustain injury in the course of performing official duties, in the
same manner as provided by the city for its full-time police officers,
and reserve officers shall be eligible for death benefits as set out
in chapter 86, Acts of 60th Legislature, Regular Session 1967, as
amended; provided, however, that nothing in this division shall be
construed to authorize or permit a member of the police reserve force
to become eligible for participation in any pension fund created pursuant
to state statute to which regular officers may become a member by
payroll deductions or otherwise. Reserve police officers may act in
a supplementary capacity to the regular police force and may assume
the full-time duties of regular police officers, at the discretion
of the chief of police.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
5)
This division does not limit the power of the mayor to summons
into service a special police force as provided by V.T.C.A., Local
Government Code, section 341.011.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
6)
(a)
Reserve
police officers must comply with the minimum training standards established
by the state commission on law enforcement officer standards and education
minimum standards established for all reserve law enforcement officers
identical to the standards so established which must be fulfilled
before a person appointed as a reserve law enforcement officer may
carry a weapon or otherwise act as a peace officer. The chief of police
shall establish qualifications and standards of training for members
of the police reserve force and shall establish rules and regulations
governing reserve police officers.
(b)
The
chief of police may establish minimum physical, mental, educational
and moral standards as used by the regular police department, but
in no case shall the standards be less than that established by the
state commission on law enforcement officer standards and education.
(c)
If
any portion of this division be in conflict with any part or portion
of V.T.C.A., Occupations Code, chapter 1701 as amended, or any other
laws of this state, the terms and provisions of those laws will govern.
(Ordinance adopted 7/11/05, sec.
7)
