[Adopted 5-4-1992 by Ord. No. 1412]
The President of the Council and the Manager of the Borough
are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to enter into those
certain intergovernmental police cooperation agreements, specifically
a Municipal Police Cooperative Agreement and a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Office of the Attorney General Municipal Drug Task Force Agreement
(referred to as "agreements" hereinafter), with the municipalities
designated hereafter, under the terms of which the police officers
of each municipality are granted authority to officially act as police
officers of the other municipality, subject to the terms of the agreements,
when performing duties in the other municipality and establishing
procedures for the Police Department of each municipality to render
aid and assistance to one another, which agreements are attached hereto,
made a part hereof and incorporated herein by reference thereto.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said agreements are on file in the Borough
offices.
The duration of the agreements shall be indefinite, subject
to termination by each municipality as provided in the agreements.
The purpose and objective of the agreements are to foster improved
governmental cooperation between the municipalities of Baldwin Township,
Bethel Park Borough, Bridgeville Borough, Castle Shannon Borough,
Dormont Borough, Green Tree Borough, Mt. Lebanon Township, Scott Township,
South Park Township and Whitehall Borough to improve law enforcement
in the aforesaid municipalities by providing police officers with
the authority to exercise official duties in the other municipalities,
thereby alleviating problems of arrests being determined improper
or unlawful by reason of jurisdictional or boundary issues.
Each municipality shall be responsible for any expenses not
reimbursed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any other funding
source, said expenses being incurred by reason of action taken by
its police pursuant to the agreements.
No additional organizational structure other than that provided
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General,
Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control, Municipal Cooperative
Narcotics Task Force Operations Manual, as amended by the South Hills
Task Force Amendments, and the agreements will be necessary to implement
the agreements, nor will any property, real or personal, be acquired,
managed or disposed of in order to effect the purpose of the agreements.
This article shall become effective upon the date that each
of the municipalities named and designated in said agreements shall
have signed the same.
