The City of Perth Amboy hereby cooperates with all other municipalities
which adopt a similar reciprocal ordinance providing for intermunicipal
police assistance in times of emergency.
This intermunicipal assistance will be provided if and when
the City of Perth Amboy has an emergency within its boundaries requiring
additional police assistance to protect life and property or to assist
in suppressing a riot or disorder and whenever another municipality
which has enacted a similar reciprocal ordinance may experience a
similar emergency requiring additional police assistance.
The Director of Police, and/or his designee or the highest ranking
officer on duty at the time is hereby authorized to request assistance
from the Chief of Police, and/or his designee, or highest ranking
officer on duty of the police departments of other municipalities
for intermunicipal police assistance during and/or after an emergency
situation.
The Director of Police of the City of Perth Amboy and/or his
designee, shall provide assistance to another municipality or municipalities
making a valid request to supply such personnel and equipment to the
extent possible without endangering persons or property within the
City of Perth Amboy.
Members of the Perth Amboy Police Department supplying emergency
assistance to another municipality shall have the same powers and
authority as have the members of the police department of the municipality
in which said assistance is being rendered. Additionally, said members
shall also have, while so acting, said rights and immunities as they
may otherwise enjoy in the performance of their normal duties within
the City of Perth Amboy.
The City of Perth Amboy shall, upon providing assistance to
another municipality which has enacted a similar intermunicipal assistance
ordinance, assume the cost and expense of providing said personnel
and equipment to the requesting municipality, excepting such instances
when the requesting municipality receives state or federal aid as
reimbursement or if private concerns are involved and the requesting
municipality receives reimbursement. Therefore, in this event, the
costs incurred by the city shall be submitted to the municipality
which requested assistance for reimbursement.
At such times that an emergency may occur and intermunicipal
police aid is requested, the Chief of Police, and/or his designee,
of the municipality wherein said emergency situation exists shall
be the senior-ranking officer of all members of any police department
rendering assistance within the boundaries of said municipality.
In the event that any member of a police force summoned pursuant
to an agreement to render assistance suffers injury or death in the
performance of his or her duties, he/she or his/her designee or legal
representative shall be entitled to such salary, pension rights, workmen's
compensation or other benefits as would have accrued if such injury
or death had occurred in the performance of his or her normal duties.
A copy of this Article shall be transmitted to the Municipal
Clerk of each municipality in Middlesex County no later than five
(5) business days following its adoption. The Clerk of the City of
Perth Amboy shall maintain a record of all such similar ordinances
adopted by other municipalities.