Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:14-156, the Chief of Police or other
head of the City's Municipal Police Department or the Mayor or Chief
Executive Officer of this municipality is hereby authorized to request
assistance from the Chief or other head of any other Police Department
or force to which this article shall apply, during or after an emergency
within this municipality's territorial limits which requires additional
police assistance in order to protect life and property or to assist
in suppressing a riot or disorder.
The Police Chief or other head of this City's Municipal Police
Department or force is hereby authorized to provide assistance to
other municipalities to which this article shall apply, when a valid
request for such assistance is made by such other municipalities and
to supply such personnel and equipment as requested to the extent
possible without endangering person or property within this municipality.
Upon providing assistance to another municipality, this municipality
shall assume the cost and expense of providing its personnel and equipment
to the requesting municipality, except in such instance when and where
the requesting municipality receives state or federal aid by way of
reimbursement for such cost. In such circumstances, the costs incurred
by this municipality by virtue of providing such assistance shall
be submitted to the municipality or community requesting assistance.
The members of the Police Department or police force of this
municipality who suffer injury, or their legal representative, should
death result, while rendering assistance to another municipality pursuant
to this article shall be entitled to all benefits they would realize
if injury or death had occurred in the performance of duty in this
municipality.
Any member of a Police Department or force from another municipality
who is rendering assistance to this municipality pursuant to this
article shall have all the powers, authority and immunities members
of the Police Department or force of this municipality would have
in the course of performing their duties.
The actions and deployment of members of another Police Department
or force rendering assistance to this municipality pursuant to this
article shall, at all times during the rendering of such assistance,
be directed by the Police Chief of this municipality.
This Article shall apply to any municipality outside the territorial
jurisdiction of this municipality which shall have adopted an ordinance
substantially containing the terms and conditions set forth in this
article and thereby creating a reciprocal relationship with this municipality
with regard to matters addressed by this article.