Chapter 2.36 — RESERVE POLICE OFFICERS

A.

By statute, the Legislature of the state of California has provided that reserve police officers who are rated as Level I reserve police officers may be empowered by local governmental bodies to have those full peace officer powers and duties as provided by Penal Code Section 830.1.

B.

Upon appointment by the chief of police, reserve police officers who have qualified as Level I reserve police officers pursuant to Penal Code Section 832.6 (a) (1) and, in addition, have completed a minimum of three years of field experience as a reserve police officer with the city, comprising a minimum of three hundred sixty (360) working hours or, at the discretion of the chief of police, have equivalent experience, shall have those peace officer powers and duties as provided by Penal Code Section 830.6 (a)(2). Such an officer shall be known as a "designated reserve."

C.

This chapter includes as eligible those reserves who have been issued a Level I reserve officer certificate before January 1, 1981, as well as those reserves who received their Level I certificates after that date and have completed the basic training course at an academy approved by the commission on peace officer standards and training.

(Prior code § 2-5.301)

A.

The time requirement for a reserve officer to have served on the police department of the city, prior to appointment as a designated reserve, may be waived at the discretion of the chief of police.

B.

Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the chief of police from revoking or suspending such designated reserve status of any appointed officer, nor shall the chief of police be under any mandate to make any such appointment to any individual reserve police officer.

(Prior code § 2-5.302)