3.40.060 Police reserve unit – Creation – Organization – Limits of rules and regulations.
The council may, by resolution, create and establish a police reserve unit in addition to the regular police department. Such reserve unit may be dissolved in the same manner as it is created and established. The police reserve unit shall be organized and structured and its members qualified and determined under such rules and regulations as may be established by the police chief with the approval of the council. All such rules and regulations shall be subject to the following conditions:
A. All reserve unit personnel shall be selected on the basis of merit and fitness under such examinations or conditions as the police chief, with the approval of the manager, may establish. The police chief shall require such medical and physical examinations as are necessary to ascertain the physical fitness of all applicants.
B. All reserve unit personnel shall not be subject to the personnel policies of the city nor shall they be entitled to any privileges under such personnel policies.
C. All reserve unit personnel shall be appointed by the police chief with the approval of Arizona P.O.S.T.
D. Such personnel may be suspended or discharged at any time by the police chief with or without cause. [Ord. 18-09 § 1; Res. 18-24; Code 2004 § 3-96.]