[R.O. 2012 §200.010; CC 1988 §200.010; Ord. No. 328 §§1 — 4, 7-16-1974]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings:
POLICE OR POLICE OFFICERS
All members of the Police Department, except clerks and employees.
REGULAR POLICE OFFICER
A member of the Police Force who performs general Police duties during his/her entire working time.
[R.O. 2012 §200.020; CC 1988 §200.020; Ord. No. 328 §§1 — 4, 7-16-1974; Ord. No. 923 §1, 12-17-1991]
There is hereby established in the City, a Police Department which may consist of a Chief of Police, Captain, Lieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals and as many other full-time Police Officers as necessary for the proper and efficient policing of the City. The Board of Aldermen, with the recommendation of the Board of Public Safety may determine by resolution the number of regular Police Officers in the Department.
[R.O. 2012 §200.030; CC 1988 §200.030; Ord. No. 489 §25, 8-19-1980; Ord. No. 1016, 11-16-1993]
The Chief of Police may promulgate rules and regulations for the governing of the Police Department and the members or employees thereof. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen may, from time to time, amend or repeal such rule, rules or regulations or adopt a new rule, rules or regulations.
The Board of Aldermen shall be authorized to employ one (1) or more full-time regular Police Officers as may from time to time be determined necessary for the proper and efficient policing of the City; provided however, that the Mayor, with the recommendation of the Chief of Police, may temporarily fill vacancies in the Police Department without the approval of the Board of Aldermen. Such interim or temporary employment shall not exceed thirty (30) days and is intended to be for a sufficient period of time to permit the Board to consider making the Mayor's action permanent or taking other action.
Compensation of the regular Police Officers of the City shall be as provided by the Board of Aldermen.
[R.O. 2012 §200.080; CC 1988 §200.090; Ord. No. 328 §§1 — 4, 7-16-1974]
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City may from time to time or on a permanent basis provide for basic or supplemental police and fire protection services by contract with St. Louis County or other Municipalities as they shall deem necessary by Ordinance of the City properly adopted.
[R.O. 2012 §200.090; CC 1988 §200.091; Ord. No. 644 §§1 — 5, 3-17-1987; Ord. No. 989, 12-15-1992]
A. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this Section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this Section:
EMERGENCY SITUATION
Any situation in which the Peace Officer has a reasonable belief that a crime is about to be committed, is being committed, or has been committed involving injury or threat of injury to any person, property, or governmental interest and his/her response is reasonably necessary to prevent or end such emergency situation or mitigate the likelihood of injury involved in such emergency situation. The determination of the existence of any emergency situation shall be in the discretion of the Peace Officer making the response or in the discretion of a Peace Officer or Governmental Officer of the political subdivision in which the emergency situation is alleged to be occurring.
MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICER
Any Police Officer of the City of Warson Woods, Missouri, who has completed the basic police training program when required by Chapter 590, RSMo., excluding reserve officers.
RESPONSE
To take any and all action which the Peace Officer may lawfully take as if exercising his/her powers within his/her own jurisdiction.
B. 
A Municipal Police Officer of the City of Warson Woods, Missouri, shall have the authority in accordance with the departmental procedures to respond to an emergency situation outside he/she boundaries of the City of Warson Woods, Missouri, while on duty.
C. 
The authority contained herein shall permit the response by one (1) or more Municipal Police Officers to an emergency situation within any incorporated area whose corporate limits are common with the City of Warson Woods, Missouri, or within a two (2) mile radius from the corporate limits of the City of Warson Woods, Missouri. The Chief of the Police Department or his/her designee may in his/her discretion authorize additional response beyond this designated area.
D. 
Police Officers shall not leave the City inhabitants with inadequate police protection or be absent for extended periods of time. The response shall be in aid of, and to assist, the authorities of the County or the Municipality in which the emergency situation is located. No Police Officer of the City shall be authorized to make an arrest by reason of this authorization to respond, nor shall he/she be authorized to use his/her weapon except to respond to a threat of serious physical harm to himself/herself or others or to make an arrest for a felony violation involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm.
E. 
Every response to an emergency situation outside the City's boundaries shall be reported by the Police Officer(s) to the Chief of Police who in turn shall notify the Mayor with a written explanation for the reason for said response.
F. 
Under the authority set forth in Section 70.837, RSMo., and in addition to the authority granted in Subsections (B) through (E) of this Section and Section 200.070, the Chief of Police is authorized to direct any Municipal Police Officer to respond and provide assistance to any other public safety agency in Missouri or any bordering State at the time of a significant emergency, such as a fire, earthquake, flood, tornado, hazardous material incident or other such disaster. Assistance will be provided pursuant to this Subsection only if the Governing Body of the public safety agency to be assisted has mutual aid legislation allowing that public safety agency to provide similar aid to the public safety agencies of the City. All the restrictions in Subsections (D) and (E) of this Section and all provisions of law applicable to actions by Municipal Police Officers within the City shall apply to any assistance provided outside the City by any Municipal Police Officer pursuant to this Subsection.
[R.O. 2012 §200.100; CC 1988 §200.092; Ord. No. 635 §§1 — 4, 12-16-1986]
A. 
The Officers of the City of Warson Woods Police Department are authorized to participate in and cooperate with any Law Enforcement Officers of jurisdictions in any Major Case Squad operation or formation. The Officers designated to act in the Major Case Squad operation will be so designated by the Chief of Police and when acting outside of the City of Warson Woods as a member of the Major Case Squad operation shall be considered to be on active duty the same as if acting within the boundaries of the City of Warson Woods.
B. 
Whenever any Police Officer is duly authorized as a member of the Major Case Squad he/she shall have the power to arrest anywhere within this State. This power shall only be exercised during the time the Police Officer is an active member of an active Major Case Squad and only within the scope of the investigation on which the squad is working.
C. 
Prior to the initiation of a Major Case Squad investigation in a political subdivision other than where the crime occurred, a member of the Major Case Squad shall notify the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the political subdivision in which the investigation is to be conducted or a designated agent thereof.
D. 
For the purpose of this Section the "Major Case Squad" shall mean any formation, operation, organization or cooperative action between any County, Governing Body, any Municipal Government and the City of Warson Woods the purpose of which is intensive professional investigation of certain individual crimes that may occur in their general geographic area, and which is operated and activated on request of a County Sheriff, County Police Superintendent or the Police Chief of a political subdivision wherein a crime has occurred.
[R.O. 2012 §200.110; CC 1988 §200.100; Ord. No. 191 §§1 — 4, 3-20-1962; Ord. No. 923 §5, 12-17-1991]
A. 
Identifying Unclaimed Property. All unclaimed property other than money or cash coming into the possession of the Police Department from any source whatever and having any value shall be properly marked or catalogued so as to show its source and date of its receipt and shall be kept and disposed of as herein provided.
B. 
Property To Be Sold At Public Auction. On the first (1st) Wednesday of June of each year, or at such time as inventory deems it, all such property which has remained unclaimed for more than one (1) year, and the owner of which is unknown, shall be sold at public auction by the Chief of Police or the Marshal at a suitable place at Police Headquarters. Ten (10) days' notice of said sale shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation; said notice to be published not more than three (3) weeks prior to the day of said sale; said notice shall set forth the place and time said auction is to be held.
C. 
Proceeds Of Auction — Destruction Of Property. All monies received from the sale of such property shall be turned over to the Clerk of the City to be deposited in the General Revenue Fund of the City. All property for which no bid is received at such auction shall be destroyed by the Chief of Police in the presence of at least one (1) member of the Board of Public Safety (other than the Chief of Police) and a certificate of said destruction, signed by the Chief of Police and the member of the Board of Public Safety present, shall be filed with the City Clerk.
D. 
Disposition Of Money Or Cash. All money or cash coming into the possession of the Police Department from any source whatever, which has remained unclaimed and the owner unknown for a period of at least one (1) year shall be turned over to the City Clerk and a record thereof kept by him/her. Should the ownership of said money or cash be established within a period of five (5) years from the date of its receipt, then the Clerk shall return the same to the owner. After a period of five (5) years, said unclaimed money or cash shall become part of the General Revenue Fund of the City.