§ 2-82. Director of public safety.

As head of the Department of Public Safety and Welfare and Public Works, the city manager may, at the manager's discretion, employ a director of public safety to oversee the city's public safety operations. If so employed, the director of public safety shall, subject to the direction of the city manager:

(a)

Serve as administrator and Chief of the city's combined public safety forces;

(b)

Supervise, coordinate and efficiently deploy, through the use of qualified personnel, all of the city's emergency medical, fire, first responder, law enforcement and public safety employees, including related support staff and civilian employees;

(c)

Supervise, coordinate and efficiently deploy all of the city's code enforcement division employees;

(d)

Ensure that the duties and functions of the city's fire and police services are efficiently and properly performed by qualified personnel in compliance with and as may be required by city charter, city ordinance, state law or federal law;

(e)

Exercise authority over the stationing and transfer of supervised personnel, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the City Manager;

(f)

Suspend any code enforcement division, emergency medical, fire, first responder, law enforcement or public safety employee, including any related support staff or civilian employee, for incompetence, neglect of duty, drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by proper authority, or any other just or reasonable cause;

(g)

Employ one or more Deputy Directors of Public Safety who shall be qualified by general law to serve as the command heads of the fire and police services and who shall be given the ranks of Deputy Fire Chief and Deputy Chief of Police, respectively;

(h)

In times of grave civil emergency or natural disaster, act as incident commander, or designate a member of the city's public safety force to act as incident commander, and coordinate the city's emergency response and emergency operations efforts; and

(i)

Perform all such additional duties that may be required by the city manager, the city commission or by city ordinance.

(Ord. No. O-18-64 , § 2, 9-24-18)