Each officer of the Department shall possess
the powers conferred on constables by law and shall preserve the public
peace and enforce the laws and ordinances of the state and City, subject
to the orders, rules and regulations of the Chief, the Mayor and the
Council.
The Chief of Police and any police officer shall
arrest any person in the City found in the act of violating any law
or ordinance of the City or state or aiding or abetting in such violation,
and they shall arrest without warrant any person whom they have reasonable
grounds to believe has violated any law or ordinance and who shall
not be apprehended unless immediately arrested, shall take any arrested
person in charge and confine him and shall within a reasonable time
bring such person before the court having jurisdiction thereof to
be dealt with according to law.
[Added 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 1241]
A. State requirements. The City of St. Francis is a municipal
corporation which provides government services to its citizens and
the general public, and in order to efficiently provide services it
is necessary to conduct criminal history record searches concerning
certain persons. This section is enacted in order to comply with a
State of Wisconsin requirement that provides that a municipality that
requests that the state provide it with criminal history record information
concerning an individual under certain circumstances have an ordinance
enacted authorizing such requests.
B. Purpose. This section is adopted for the purpose of
providing the City of St. Francis Police Department with the authority
to request criminal history record information from the State of Wisconsin
if requested by the City Administrator or a City department head.
C. Authority. If requested by the City Administrator
or any City department head, the City of St. Francis Police Department
shall conduct a criminal history record information search concerning
the following persons:
(1) Alcohol license and permit applicants.
(2) Transient merchant license applicants.
(3) Applicants for City employment.
(6) Applicants for all other licenses and permits which
may be issued by the City of St. Francis.
(7) An officer or partner of any corporate or partnership
applicant for licenses or permits.
(8) Any other person for whom a department head or the
City Administrator requests criminal history information. A request
under this subsection must be based on a reasonable belief that the
criminal history information is necessary to assist in the safe and
efficient operation of City government.
D. Fees. The cost of the search shall be paid as provided
by ordinance or, if not specifically addressed in an ordinance, as
directed by the City Administrator.
There shall be a petty cash fund in the amount
of $50 for the Police Department, which shall have been initiated
by a voucher drawn upon the City treasury. Such fund shall be the
responsibility of the Police Chief, who may designate a member of
the Police Department to be in charge of such petty cash fund. From
time to time such fund may be replenished by voucher drawn upon the
City treasury, with proper receipts shown for disbursements from such
petty cash fund.
When any forfeiture or fine due and owing to
any other governmental unit is collected by the St. Francis Police
Department, a fee as provided by the current fee schedule on file
with the City Clerk shall be retained by the City of St. Francis and
the balance forwarded to the treasurer or other appropriate official
of such other government unit.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter or any regulation, rule or order made hereunder shall be subject to a penalty as provided in §
1-4 of this Code.