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[Ord. of 11-27-1979]
There is hereby continued in existence the Willimantic Police Department, including all current personnel, administrative staff, equipment and other items of personal property, contracts, rights, liabilities, and all other assets of the department, whether real or personal and wheresoever located. The Common Council shall determine the level of manpower, administrative staff and the compensation for department personnel as it deems appropriate.
[Ord. of 11-27-1979]
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to superintend the Police Department and he may make or prescribe such rules and regulations as he shall deem advisable for the efficient operation of the department, and from time to time report to the city manager the state of the department. He shall also keep all the records of the Police Department and a roster of all the officers and members, and all the reports shall be made by him at the headquarters of the department. He shall receive from any subordinate member of the police force, and from every other person, all complaints of any violation of any law of the state, or ordinance of the city, and shall see that the same be prosecuted before the proper court. All members of the force shall be subject to his orders. He shall from time to time designate the officers to attend court. He shall at all times be under the direction of the Common Council and city manager have the management and control of the police force. He shall be on duty as prescribed by the policies of the Common Council and shall receive and execute all orders from the city manager. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to place any mittimus issued in any case where the arrest was made by any police officer of the City of Willimantic, or which shall issue out of the court of jurisdiction into the hands of some proper officer for service, which officer shall not be a patrolman who is assigned to regular duty.
[Ord. of 11-27-1979]
Every person appointed to an office in the Police Department shall have been, at the time of his appointment, for three years next preceding, a citizen of the United States, and capable of speaking, reading and writing the English language; and shall, before exercising any function of his office, make oath or affirmations before some competent authority that he will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Connecticut, and that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office to which he shall have been appointed and shall cause a certificate of such oath or affirmation to be lodged with the City Manager.
[Ord. of 11-27-1979]
Whenever services of any regular member of the police force may be required by persons other than the City of Willimantic the Chief of Police may, if, in his judgment, the interests of the city will not suffer thereby, detail such regular member or members of the force as he shall judge expedient and shall charge such persons for such services so rendered such sums as may be established which sum shall include all necessary expenses. The Chief of Police shall keep a record of all such services performed, the names of the persons for whom and the names of the policemen by whom performed, the time spent, the expenses incurred, the sum charged, the amount and date of payment, together with such other memoranda as may be proper.
[Ord. of 9-27-1971; Ord. of 11-8-1971]
(a) 
The Chief of Police shall have the power to take appropriate disciplinary action against members of the Police Department, which shall include the power to suspend policemen from office for cause, and to remove such policemen from the department for cause; but such suspension or removal shall not continue for more than 30 days thereafter, unless he shall within that time notify each member of the Common Council in writing of such suspension or removal, the grounds therefore and the names of the witnesses to sustain such charges. Such notice in writing shall be sufficient if made to each member of the Common Council individually. The Common Council need not convene to receive such notice.
(b) 
Written notice of the particulars of the charges against the accused shall be given to him within 48 hours thereafter. Not more than 15 days after such notice to the accused, upon request by the accused or his counsel on his behalf for a hearing, the Common Council or a committee of their own number shall hear and examine witnesses under oath or affirmation upon the charges and in defense; and the Common Council may continue the suspension, remove the accused from office, or restore him to duty. The patrolman against whom charges have been made shall have the right to employ counsel to represent him at the hearing and shall be given a reasonable time within which to prepare a defense thereto. The party suspended or removed shall be deprived of his pay from the date of his suspension or removal until such time as he may be restored.
(c) 
The violation of any laws of the state or ordinances of the City of Willimantic or of any rule or ordinance of the Police Department, or disobedience of the lawful orders, rules and regulations of the Chief of Police, shall be grounds for suspension or dismissal or other disciplinary action.
(d) 
Complaints regarding members of the Police Department may be made either to the Common Council or to the Chief of Police.
(e) 
The Chief of Police shall assign all members of the department to their respective posts, shifts, details and duties. He shall make rules and regulations concerning the operation of the department and the conduct of all officers and employees thereof. He shall be responsible for the efficiency, discipline and good conduct of the department and for the care and custody of all property used by the department.
(f) 
The Chief of Police shall make appointments to the Police Department, or promotions within the department, subject to the approval of the Common Council.
(g) 
The Mayor may remove the Chief of Police subject to the provisions of G.S. 7-278.
[Ord. No. 2428, 5-12-2009]
The Willimantic Police Department has institutive the following fees:
Departmental Fees:
Background check
$20
Fingerprints
$5 (not for pistol permits applications (fee is set by state statute)
Soliciting/Vendor/Street Fest Permits:
60-day permit
$30
6-month permit
$40
1-year permit
$65
Parking Permits:
1-month permit
$16
3-month permit
$40
6-month permit
$80
1-year permit
$140
Parking Tickets:
$20 penalty for the following:
Overtime, posted area
More than one space
More than 12" from curb
Within 25' of intersection
Too close to stop sign
On sidewalk
Crosswalk
$50 penalty for the following:
Wrong side of street
In bus stop
"No Parking" area
Loading-unloading zone
Snow ban
Double parking
Within 10' of hydrant
Obstructing driveway
Traffic hazard
Parked in fire lane
Residential permit required
Windham public school permit required
$100 Penalty for the following:
Parked in handicapped zone
PENALTY MUST BE PAID WITHIN 14 DAYS.
After 14 days penalty doubles.
The departmental, vendor, soliciting street fest and parking permit fees are effective July 1, 2009 and the parking ticket fees are effective immediately per ordinance. This section supersedes any and all other ordinances.