[Adopted 10-14-1991 (§§ 6.220 to 6.230 of
the 1986 Code)]
Whereas, the Board of Supervisors of Allegheny
Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, acting pursuant to the
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, Act of July 12, 1972, Act No. 180,
53 P.S. § 481 et seq., as amended,[1] hereby enacts this article adopting a municipal police
cooperative agreement (hereafter referred to as "agreement") with
other signatory municipalities to enforce narcotics and illegal drug
laws and thereby promote the health, safety, and welfare of the community.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said Act was repealed 12-19-1996
by P.L. 1158, No. 177. See now 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301 et seq.
The Board of Supervisors of Allegheny Township,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has evidenced its intent to participate
in the Westmoreland County Attorney General Municipal Drug Task Force
activities designed to combat the illegal possession and trafficking
of narcotics and other illegal or controlled drugs within its municipal
boundaries as well as within the boundaries of other near or adjacent
communities through cooperation with the Pennsylvania Office of the
Attorney General and other signatory municipalities.
The Board of Supervisors of Allegheny Township,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, hereby adopts the agreement which
provides a framework for intergovernmental police cooperation with
various signatory municipalities under the terms of which police officers
of each such municipality shall be and are granted the authority to
officially act as police officers in any other signatory municipality,
subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement, said agreement
being on file with the permanent records of Allegheny Township as
maintained by the Allegheny Township Manager, which agreement is incorporated
herein by reference,[1] as said agreement may, from time to time, be modified
or amended.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said agreement is on file in
the Township offices.
The duration of the agreement shall be indefinite,
subject to termination as provided in the agreement.
The purposes and objectives of the agreement
are to foster increased cooperation among the various signatory municipalities,
to improve drug law enforcement throughout the signatory municipalities,
and to enhance the skill and professionalism of police officers from
each of the signatory municipalities by, among other things, conferring
authority upon police officers to exercise official duties in other
municipalities thereby reducing the law enforcement problems relating
to jurisdiction, territory, or boundary issues.
Each municipality shall be responsible for all
expenses incurred by reason of action taken by its police officers
pursuant to this agreement with the assistance of funds supplied by
the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.
The organizational structure necessary to implement
the agreement, to the extent that it is not set forth in the agreement
itself, shall be covered by directives, procedures, and guidance from
the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General and other area police
departments from municipalities which are signatories to said agreement.
All property, real or personal, which may be
acquired, managed, licensed or disposed of pursuant to this agreement
shall be in accordance with both the terms of the agreement as well
as the directives, procedures, and guidance of the Pennsylvania Office
of the Attorney General.
The municipality shall retain responsibility
for the management, direction, and control of its employees with assistance,
financial or otherwise, from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney
General.
The entity created by this article shall be
empowered to enter into contracts for policies of group life insurance
and employee benefits, including social security, for its employees.
This article shall become effective upon the
execution of the agreement and enactment of ordinances by each of
the municipalities who are or in the future may become parties to
this agreement.
