[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Agawam 12-21-1972
as Ch. 15 of the Code of the Town of Agawam. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There is hereby established a Police Department, consisting of a Police
Chief, who shall be appointed by the Mayor, and such other officers and members
as the Mayor shall determine.
The Police Department shall be charged with the enforcement of the ordinances
of the town and the laws of the commonwealth.
The Police Department is hereby authorized to go to aid another city
or town at the request of such city or town in the suppression of riots or
other forms of violence therein.
No member of the regular police force shall while in active employment
as a member of such police force seek election to any elective office.
There is hereby established a career incentive pay program for regular
full-time members of the Police Department as provided for in MGL C. 41, § 108L.
A member of the Police Department assigned to photographic or fingerprint
identification work shall, after completion of one year's service in
such assignment, receive a salary increase of $600 a year, as provided for
in MGL C. 41, § 108I.
The auxiliary police officers at the Town of Agawam shall receive compensation
for time expended in court on behalf of the town, at the same rate received
by members of the Agawam Police Department, based on Step 1 of the applicable
grade and salary range assignment, as enumerated in the collective bargaining
contract, which is in effect at the time said auxiliary police officers are
required to be present in court, except that such compensation shall be on
the basis of straight time hours and not on the basis of time and a half.
Compensation shall be made respectively with respect to time so expended on
and subsequent to January 1, 1979.
