§ 75-13. Specific duties of Department.

The following are specific duties to be performed by the Police Department:

A. 

Preserve the public peace, prevent crime, detect and arrest offenders against the penal laws and ordinances effective within the City, suppress riots, mobs, and insurrections, disperse unlawful or dangerous assemblages, and preserve order at all elections and public meetings and assemblages.

B. 

Administer and enforce laws and ordinances to regulate, direct, control and restrict the movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and the use of streets by vehicles and persons, and to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the charter, ordinance, and general law for such purpose.

C. 

Remove all nuisances in the public streets, parks, and other public places, inspect and observe all places of public amusement or assemblage and all places of business requiring any state or municipal license or permit.

D. 

Provide proper police attendance and protection at fires.

E. 

Enforce the laws and ordinances in effect within the City and prevent the violation of them by any person; apprehend and arrest all persons legally charged with the violation of any law or ordinance.

F. 

Provide for the attendance of its police officers or civilian employees in court as necessary for the prosecution and trial of persons charged with crimes and other violations of law, and cooperate fully with the law enforcement and prosecuting authorities of federal, state and county governments.

G. 

Operate a training program to maintain and improve the police efficiency of the members of the Department.