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All members of the Police Department shall have power and duties as follows:

(1) They shall perform all duties as required by the Chief of Police.

(2) They shall suppress riots, disturbances and breaches of the peace, apprehend all disorderly persons in the Town and pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of the State.

(3) They shall be the enforcement officers of the Town and shall see that the provisions of this Code and the laws of the State are complied with. They shall arrest without process all persons engaged in the violation in their presence of any provision of this Code or the laws of the State. Upon such arrest, they shall forthwith convey such offenders before the proper officer to be dealt with according to law; provided that they may incarcerate any person whom they shall arrest at a late and unusual hour of the night until the following morning, and further provided that, in the special cases relating to traffic offense set forth in Chapter 8 of this Code, they may release an arrested person upon his or her written promise to appear in court. Further, in cases involving offenses set forth in this Code other than traffic offenses, they may issue summons to violators and release them on their promise to appear in court.

(4) They shall report such offenses as may come to their knowledge to the proper Town official or they shall report the same to the respective Municipal, County or District Court Judge, securing a warrant for the arrest of offenders when desirable.

(5) They shall execute and return all writs and process to them directed by a Municipal, County or District Court Judge, and they may serve the same in any part of the County. (Ord. 1002 §4, 2009; Ord. 1003 §1, 2009)