1962-151 Mutual Police Aid with PBG
RESOLUTION N0. 151
A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF
NORTH PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, CONCERNING MUTUAL POLICE AID AND
PROTECTION WITH THE CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS, PALM BEACH
COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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' WEREAS, the Village o£ North Palm Beach and the City of
Falm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach County, Florida are desirous of
extending mutual police aid and protection to each other in time
of emergency need sa long as the same shall not jeopardize the
• interests of each governmental unit;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE
VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTH PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Village of North Palm Beach shall render
emergency police assistance to any point within the City of
Palm Beach Gardens 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 City of Palm Beach
Gardens, the Village may dispatch North Palm Beach personnel at
once. to the scene if it is deemed expedient due to proximity of
nature of the emergency. The Village of North Palm Beach shall
forthwith notify the City of Palm Beach Gardens Police Department
of the emergency and of the fact that North Palm Beach personnel
has been dispatched. Upon the City of Palm Beach Gardens personnel
' arriving at the scene, the Palm Beach Gardens police official in
charge shall decide whether North Palm Beach personnel shall
remain upon the scene to assist or shall be relieved. Once the
Palm Beach Gardens police arrive at the scene, the direction and
control of all police activities shall be under the supervision
' of the Palm Beach Gardens police official.
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' (b} In the event of. any police emergency in Palm Beach
Gardens, the first call of which shall have been answered by
Palm Beach Gardens police, the Palm Beach Gardens police chief or,
in his absence, the Palm Beach Gardens officer in charge, shall
' decide whether it will be helpful to obtain the assistance o£ the
Village of North Palm Beach police. If so, he shall telephone
or radio the North Palm Beach Police Department and request the
same.
(c) Upon receiving the request, the Village of 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 jeopardize the police
protection of the Village, and, if in his opinion it will, the
request shall be denied.
(d) When in the opinion of the North Palm Beach Police
Chief, or police officer in charge, police assistance from Palm
' Beach Gardens will be helpful in an emergency within the North
Palm Beach corporate limits, he shall telephone or radio.the
Palm Beach Gardens Police Department and request aid. Any Palm
Beach Gardens 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 Palm Beach
Gardens police chief or the person then in charge of the Palm
Beach Gardens Police Department shall have full discretion to
decide whether granting the request for aid will jeopardize the
police protection of Palm Beach Gardens, and, if in his opinion
it will, the request shall be denied.
e Section 4. 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 Palm Beach Gardens police offices in
charge.
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Section 5. Each of_the parties hereto shall arrange their
liability and workmanTs compensation insurance coverage so that
their personnel will be covered although acting beyond the
boundaries of the municipality.
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Section 6. The members of the Police Force of the City of
Palm Beach Gardens 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 Village 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 City of Palm Beach Gardens and shall
have all the powers and duties of the. policemen of the City of
Palm Beach Gardens whenever they are officially acting within
the borders of the City of Palm Beach Gardens according to the
terms of this resolution.
Section '7. This resolution shall not be repealed without
first giving ten days prior notice to the City Council of the
City of Palm Beach Gardens.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this ~~ day of ,Q,py~gr 1962.
Mayor
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