Ordinance 32660006.90000
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ORDINANCE NO. 3266
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, RELATING TO COMMUNITY POLICING
AND CIVIL SERVICE; AUTHORIZING PARTICIPATION IN
THE POLICE CORPS PROGRAM AND SPONSORSHIP OF
CANDIDATES; AUTHORIZING THE CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION TO APPROVE CANDIDATES FOR
APPOINTMENT TO EMPLOYMENT UPON SATISFACTORY
COMPLETION OF THE POLICE CORPS PROGRAM, AND
FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Recitals and Findings
1.1 The United States has adopted the Police Corps Act as Title XX, Subtitle
A of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. 42 U.S.C. §§ 14091 et seq.
The purposes of the Police Corps Act are to:
(1) Address violent crime by increasing the number of police with
advanced education and training on community patrol; and
(2) Provide educational assistance to law enforcement personnel and
to students who possess a sincere interest in public service in the form of law enforcement.
1.2 The state of Washington is sponsoring, through the Criminal Justice
Training Commission, the Police Corps Program in the state of Washington.
1.3 A description of the Police Corps Program is attached to this Ordinance as
Appendix 1.
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1.4 The City endorses the Police Corps Program and seeks to participate in the
program through sponsorship of qualified candidates.
1.5 It is the purpose of this Ordinance to authorize participation of City as a
sponsoring agency for Police Corps candidates and to provide for integration of the Police Corps
Program into existing civil and hiring programs.
Section 2. Police Corps Authorized. The City hereby authorizes the participation
in the Washington Police Corps Program, subject to the terms and conditions of the Police Corps
Program. The Mayor is authorized to enter into contracts necessary for the implementation of
the Police Corps Program and sponsorship of Police Corps candidates.
Section 3. Civil Service Integration.
3.1 Candidates for the Police Corps Program, sponsored by the City, shall be
reviewed and approved by the Civil Service Commission and City as appointing authority prior
to sponsorship.
3.2 Police Corps candidates shall be subject to all requirements of
employment qualification, including, but not limited to, background testing, polygraph, and other
evaluations (collectively, "testing "). Testing may be employed both prior to sponsorship and
following completion of the program.
3.3 Following approval of sponsorship by the Civil Service Commission and
the appointing authority, a candidate may be sponsored by the City. Upon successful graduation
from the Police Corps, certification by the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission,
and completion of all testing, the candidate shall be employed as a probationary employee of the
City subject to 42 U.S.C. § 14096 and regulations applicable to all law enforcement officers of
the City.
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Section 4. Ratification and Confirmation. All acts consistent with and prior to the
effective date of this Ordinance are hereby ratified and confirmed.
Section 5. Severability. If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction,
such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other
section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance.
Section 6. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifi-
cally delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect
five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the
title.
APPROVED:
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ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED:
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFF C THE C TY ATTORNEY:
BY
W. SCOTT SNYD
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 7/23/99
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 7/27/99
PUBLISHED: 8/l/99
EFFECTIVE DATE: 8/6/99
ORDINANCE NO. 3266
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3266
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 27th day of July, 1999, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, passed
Ordinance No. 3266. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, RELATING TO
COMMUNITY POLICING AND CIVIL SERVICE; AUTHORIZING PARTICIPATION IN
THE POLICE CORPS PROGRAM AND SPONSORSHIP OF CANDIDATES;
AUTHORIZING THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION TO APPROVE CANDIDATES FOR
APPOINTMENT TO EMPLOYMENT UPON SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF THE
POLICE CORPS PROGRAM, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 28th day of July, 1999.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Office of the Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education
Appendix 1 .....
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The Police Corps
The Police Corps is designed to address violent crime
by helping police and sheriffs' departments increase
the number of officers with advanced education and
training assigned to community patrol. The program,
which operates within states that have submitted an
approved state plan, is designed to motivate highly
qualified young people to serve our cities and counties as
police officers and sheriffs' deputies. It does this by
offering Federal scholarships on a competitive basis to
college students who agree to serve as police for at least
four years. Participants who seek baccalaureate degrees
begin their work as police upon graduation from college.
Those who pursue graduate study complete their service
in advance. Participants become members of state and
local police departments in geographic areas that have the
greatest need for additional police officers. All serve on
community patrol.
The Police Corps reduces local costs of hiring and training
excellent new of officers. The Federal government pays
for rigorous law enforcement training for each Police
Corps participant. In addition, the Federal government
pays the state and local police departments that hire
participants $10,000 for each of a participant's first four
years of service.
The Police Corps offers powerful incentives for a
diverse pool of highly qualified men and women to
enter policing
Students accepted into the Police Corps receive up to $7,500
a year to cover the expenses of study toward a baccalaureate
or graduate degree. Allowable educational expenses for full -
time students include reasonable room and board. A student
may receive up to $30,000 under the program. To be eligible
for the Police Corps, a student must attend (or be about to
attend) a public or non -profit 4 -year college or university.
Undergraduate participants must attend full time. Students
who attend community college are eligible once they transfer
to a 4-year institution. Participants may choose to study
criminal justice and law enforcement or may pursue degrees
in other fields. Men and women of all races and ethnic
background are eligible, regardless of family income or
resources.
All participants must possess the necessary mental and
physical capabilities and moral characteristics to be an
effective police officer, be of good character, meet the
standards of the police force with which they will serve, and
demonstrate sincere motivation and dedication to law
enforcement and public service. Although the Police Corps is
designed primarily for men and women with no prior law
enforcement experience, at this time a limited number of
persons with policing experience who demonstrate special
leadership potential and dedication may participate. Any such
individual participates on the same terms and conditions as
all other participants.
Students interested in the Police Corps apply to the "lead
agency" of the participating state in which they wish to serve.
Applications are then evaluated on a fully competitive basis
based on defined selection criteria. No exceptions from the
competitive selection standards are permitted. States with
Police Corps programs are expected to advertise the
availability of scholarships to the full range of prospective
participants and to make special efforts to encourage .
applications from among members of all racial, ethnic. and
gender groups.
Police Corps participants complete a rigorous 16 to 24-
week training program
All Police Corps participants must satisfactorily complete the
rigorous 16 to 24 week Police Corps training program. Paid
for by the Federal government, this basic police training is
intended to teach the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential
to effective service on community patrol, to develop the
physical, moral and analytical capabilities of the participants,
and to teach self- discipline and organizational loyalty. At the
conclusion of the training, all participants must satisfy high
performance standards for physical, mental and emotional
fitness. Training may take place at Federal regional training
centers or at a designated state facility that offers a training
program "substantially equivalent" to the Police Corps
training program. The police departments in which individual
participants will serve provide additional training as
appropriate.
Police Corps participants serve where most needed
Police Corps participants become members of police or
sheriffs' departments in geographic areas that have the
greatest need for additional police officers. Each participant
is tentatively assigned to an interested police or sheriffs
department at the time he or she is accepted into the•Police
Corps. Prospective participants must meet all requirements
(other than age) for admission as a trainee to the departrnent
in which he or she will serve. No more than 10 percent of a
state's participants may be assigned to the state police.
The Police Corps briags`m614- officers into community
patrol
Police Corps participants must be placed on community
patrol. Wherever feasible, they must serve all four years on
community patrol. The program encourages states to design
their plans so that, where practical, participants can be
assigned to areas of great need that are near their homes.
Police departments receive cash assistance
Police and sheriffs' departments that employ Police Corps
participants receive $10,000 per.participant for each year of
required service, or $40,000 for each participant who fulfills
the 4 -year service obligation. By statute, however, no
department may receive this payment for any year in which
the average size of its force (excluding Police Corps
participants) has declined by more than 2 percent since
January 1, 1993, or in which it has laid off officers.
Participants have the same rights and responsibilities
as other officers of the same rank and tenure
Police Corps participants have all of the rights and
responsibilities of — and are subject to all rules and
regulations that apply to — other members of the police
departments with which they serve. They must be
compensated at the same rate of pay and receive the same
benefits as other officers of the same rank and tenure.
State lead agencies work in cooperation with local
agencies and organizations
Each state's lead agency is expected to consult and coordinate
with local law enforcement officials and representatives of
police labor and management organizations, as well as other
appropriate state and local agencies.
The Police Corps will create a pool of informed
citizens who understand the challenges of policing
Police Corps participants may, but need not, remain in
policing after they serve for four years. Many no doubt will
choose policing as their career; others may return to civilian
Iife and pursue other professions. Officers who return to
civilian life will become a, vital resource — they will
represent a reservoir of informed citizens who understand
"from the inside" the challenges of modem policing and the
many demands that police must satisfy.
All educational assistance is contingent
If a Police Corps participant does not satisfactorily complete
his or her education, training and service obligations, he or
she must repay all scholarships and reimbursements received
through the program, plus interest.
Scholarships are available to dependent children of
officers killed in the line of duty
In participating states, the Police Corps offers college
scholarships to dependent children of police officers killed in
the line of duty. An eligible student may receive up to
$30,000 to cover the educational expenses associated with
attending any accredited institution of higher education.
Dependent children incur no service or repayment obligation.
The application process for eligible dependent children is
non - competitive.
?SE POLICE CORPS
LAM OOP.INJTS
For more information
States interested in participating in the Police Corps may
obtain guidelines for state plans and related information
from the Office of the Police Corps and Law Enforcement
Education, U.S. Department of Justice, 810 Seventh.St. NW,
Washington DC 20531.
Individuals and police departments interested in
participating in the Police Corps should contact the
appropriate state lead agency. Information on participating
states and agency contacts is available through the U.S.
Department of Justice Response Center at 1- 800-421 -6770
or the Office of the Police Corps at the address given above.
Revised 11/98
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOVLISH,
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1 o t e ity of dmonds,
Washington
On the 27th day of July, 1999,
the City Council of the City of
Edmonds, passed Ordinance No.
3266. A summary of the content!
of said ordinance, consisting of
the title, provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
,TO APPROVE CANDIDATES'!
FOR APPOINTMENT TO EM
-11 UPON SATISFAC -
+TORY COMPLETION OF THE!
'POLICE CORPS PROGRAM,!
IAND FIXING A TIME WHEN I
THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance
will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 28th day of July,
1999.
CITY CLERK,
SANDRA S. CHASE
Published: August 1. 1999.
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