[Adopted 11-24-1997 by Ord. No. 921-97]
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.