[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Oakmont
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-9-1990 by Ord. No. 022-90]
The Borough of Oakmont shall enter into an intergovernmental police
cooperation agreement (hereinafter referred to as "the agreement") with the
Tactical Narcotics Task Force, under the terms of which the police officers
of each municipality are granted authority to officially act as police officers
of the other municipalities, subject to the terms of this agreement, when
performing duties in the other municipalities and establishing procedures
for the Police Department of each municipality to render aid and assistance
to one another, such agreement to conform substantially to the agreement attached
to and made a part of this ordinance as Exhibit A.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Exhibit A is on file in the borough offices.
The duration of the agreement shall be indefinite, subject to termination
by the municipalities as provided in the agreement.
The purpose and objective of the agreement is to foster improved governmental
cooperation between the Borough of Oakmont and the other communities included
in the Tactical Narcotics Task Force and to improve law enforcement in the
County of Allegheny, especially in the Borough of Oakmont and the other communities
included in the Tactical Narcotics Task Force, by providing police officers
with the authority to exercise official duties in the other municipalities,
thereby alleviating problems of arrests being determined improper or unlawful
by reason of jurisdictional or boundary issues.
Each municipality shall be responsible for all expenses incurred by
reason of action taken by its police pursuant to the agreement, no other financing
being necessary or required to effect its purpose.
No additional organization structure will be necessary to implement
the agreement, nor will any property, real or personal, be acquired, managed
or disposed of in order to effect the purpose of the agreement.
The effectiveness of this article is conditioned upon the Borough of
Oakmont and the other communities included in the Tactical Narcotics Task
Force executing the aforesaid agreement and enacting an ordinance implementing
the agreement.
