1961-120 Mutual Police Aid and Protection with Town of Lake Park
RESOLUTION N0. 120
' A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF
NORTH PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, CONCERNING MUTUAL POLICE AID AND
PROTECTION WITH THE TOWN OF LAKE PARK, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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WHEREAS, the Village of North Palm Beach and the Town of
Lake Park, Palm Beach County, Florida, are desirous of extending
mutual police aid and protection to each other in time of emergency
need so long as the same shall not jeopardize the interests of
each governmental unit;
• NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVID BY THE
VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF NCRTH PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, AS
FOLTAWS:
Section 1. The Village of North Palm Beach shall render
emergency police assistance to any point within the Town of Lake
Park requested.
Section 2. Each unit shall provide compensation for their
own employees and there shall be no charges from one unit to
another for the assistance.
Section 3. The equipment shall be dispatched to a police
emergency as follows;
(a) In the event the Village of North Palm Beach receives
the first notice of a police emergency in the Town of Lake Park,
the Village may dispatch North Palm Beach personnel at once to
the scene if it is deemed expedient due to proximity or nature
of the emergency. The Village of North Palm Beach shall forthwith
notify the Town o£ Lake Park Police Department of the emergency
and of the fact that North Palm Beach personnel has been dispatched.
Upon the Town of Lake Park personnel arriving at the scene, the
Lake Park police official in charge shall decide whether North
Palm Beach personnel shall remain upon the scene to assist or shall
be relieved. Once the Lake Park police arrives at the scene, the
direction and control of all police activities shall be under the
supervision of the Lake Park police official.
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(b) In the event of any police emergency in Lake Park,
the first call of which shall have been answered by Lake Park
police, the Lake Park Police Ghief or, in his absence, the Lake
Park police officer in charge, shall decide whether it will be
helpful to obtain the assistance of the Village of North Palm
Beach Police Department and request the same,
(c) Upon receiving the request, the North Palm Beach
' Police Chief or the person then in charge of the North Palm Beach
Police Department shall have full discretion to decide whether
granting the request for aid will jeopardise the police protect-
ion of the Village, and, if in his opinion it will, the request
• shall be denied.
(d) When in the opinion o£ the North Palm Beach Police
Chief, or police officer in charge, police assistance from Lake
Park will be helpful in an emergency within the North Palm Beach
corporate limits, he shall telephone or radio the Lake Park Police
Department and request aid. Any Lake Park police assistance sent
to the Village shall be under the control and direction of the
North Palm'Beach police officer in charge.
(e} Upon receiving the above request, the Lake Park
police chief or the person then in charge of the Lake Park Police
Department shall have furl discretion to decide whether granting
the request for aid will jeopardize the police protection of
Lake Park, and, if in his opinion it will, the request shall be
denied,
Section 1~. It is hereby expressly understood that any
emergency equipment furnished by the Village of North Palm Beach
shall be operated exclusively by North Palm Beach personnel but
under the direction of the Lake Park police officer in charge.
• Section 5. Each of the parties hereto shall arrange their
liability and workman~s compensation insurance coverage so that
their personnel will be covered although acting beyond the
boundries of the municipality.
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Section 6. The members of the Police Force of the Town
of Lake Park shall be sworn in as policemen by the Village of
North Palm Beach and shall have all the powers and duties of the
policemen of the Pillage of North Palm Beach whenever they are
officially acting within the borders of the Village of North Palm
Beach according to the terms of this resolution; and the policemen
of the Village of North Palm Beach shall be sworn in as regular
policemen of the Town of bake Park and shall have all the powers
and duties of the policemen of the Town of Lake Park whenever
they are officially acting within the borders of the Town of Lake
Park according to the terms of this resolution.
Section 7: This resolution shall not be repealed without
first giving ten days prior notice to the Town Commission of the
Town of Lake Park.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1ltth day of Novembers 1961.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Village Clerc
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