Forest Preserve District of Cook County Law Enforcement Committee met May 21.
Here is the agenda provided by the committee:
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Authorization as a public speaker shall only be granted to those individuals who have submitted in writing, their name, address, subject matter, and organization (if any) to the Secretary 24 hours in advance of the meeting. Duly authorized public speakers shall be called upon to deliver testimony at a time specified in the meeting agenda. Authorized public speakers who are not present during the specified time for public testimony will forfeit their allotted time to speak at the meeting. Public testimony must be germane to a specific item(s) on the meeting agenda, and the testimony must not exceed three minutes; the Secretary will keep track of the time and advise when the time for public testimony has expired. Persons authorized to provide public testimony shall not use vulgar, abusive, or otherwise inappropriate language when addressing the Board; failure to act appropriately; failure to speak to an item that is germane to the meeting, or failure to adhere to the time requirements may result in expulsion from the meeting and/or disqualify the person from providing future testimony.
19-0233
Sponsored by: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners
PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
TITLE 3 - POLICE REGULATION, CHAPTER 1 - POLICE FORCE
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Title 3 - Police Regulations, Chapter 1 - Police Force of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as follows:
3-1-1: - POLICE FORCE ESTABLISHED; COMPOSITION.
There is hereby established a police force to be known as a Police Force. The Police Force of the District shall consist of: of police members who shall constitute the regular Police Force of the District.
A. The President and members of the Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District, the officers and heads of various departments and divisions of the District, who shall be known as "Deputy" Police.
B. Police members who shall constitute the regular Police Force of the District.
3-1-2: - COMMAND; RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The entire force for police duty, either emergency or general, shall be under the command of the General Superintendent Chief of Police who shall make such rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the police as he may consider necessary and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of the rules and regulations established by the District Board of Commissioners for the government and regulation of the officers and employees of the District and of such ordinances as may be from time to time passed by the Board of Commissioners.
3-1-3: - OATH OF OFFICE.
All members of the regular Police Force shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation before the Clerk of the County Court of Cook County or the District’s Chief of Police or such Chief of Police’s designee:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office (insert here name of office, etc., etc.,) according to the best of my ability."
The General Superintendent Chief of Police shall cause a permanent record to be kept of said oath of office. The appointment of any person to any office in the regular Police Force, with the exception of Emergency Police, shall not be deemed complete until the foregoing oath of office is subscribed to unless that person has been awarded, within six months of his or her initial full-time employment, a certificate attesting to his or her successful completion of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement Training Course as prescribed by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board (“ILETSB”); or has been awarded a certificate attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of a training program of similar content and number of hours and which course has been found acceptable by ILETSB; or by reason of extensive prior law enforcement or county corrections experience the basic training requirement is determined by ILETSB to be illogical and unreasonable. State Law reference- S.H.A. 50 ILCS 705/1 et seq.
3-1-4: - POWERS AND DUTIES.
B. Arrest Powers: All members of the Police Force, as specified in Section 3-1-1hereof, shall have power and are hereby severally authorized to arrest and it shall be the duty of the members of the regular Police Force to arrest, on view, with or without process, any person found in the act of violating, within the territory under the jurisdiction of the District Board of Commissioners, any ordinance of the Forest Preserve District, or law of the State of Illinois, or aiding or abetting in such violation, and shall take all such persons so arrested before the nearest court of competent jurisdiction in the District. In case no such court is in session, the persons so arrested may be detained in any police station within the District, or safe place provided for such purpose by the Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District, until such person so arrested can be brought before such court for trial without unnecessary delay and exercise police powers over the territory within the District for the preservation of the public peace, and the observance and enforcement of the ordinances and laws, such as are conferred upon and exercised by the police of organized cities and villages; but such police force, when acting within the limits of any city or village, but outside the territory owned, leased, or licensed by the District and property over which the District has easement rights, shall act in aid of the regular police force of such city or village and shall then be subject to the direction of its chief of police, city or village marshals, or other head thereof.
C. Arrests: Every person under arrest shall be treated kindly and humanely by the police officer making the arrest, and by those police who are in charge of such person.
State Law reference- S.H.A. 70 ILCS 810/15. 3-1-5: - RETURN OF PARAPHERNALIA.
3-1-6: - PARTICIPATION IN ILLINOIS POLICE TRAINING ACT.
The Forest Preserve District hereby elects to participate in the program provided for in the Illinois Police Training Act.
Before an individual may commence regular employment as a Forest Preserve police officer, he must have been certified by the Illinois Local Governmental Law Enforcement Officers' Training Board as having successfully completed an approved training course as provided in the Act. Such basic training must be completed by the trainee as soon as practical.
(1989 Code)
State law reference - S.H.A. 50 ILCS 705/1 et seq.
3-1-7: - EMERGENCY PRESERVE POLICE.
In case of emergency, the General Superintendent is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint Emergency Police and such Emergency Police shall have the same powers and authority as the regular members of the Police Force; provided, that such appointments shall in no case continue for more than forty-eight (48) hours.
(1989 Code)
3-1-86: - RESISTING, IMPERSONATING POLICE.
3-1-97: - POLICY ON USE OF FORCE-CHOKE HOLDS PROHIBITED.
Effective date: This ordinance shall be in effect immediately upon adoption (or give specific date)
https://fpdcc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=694355&GUID=C59D75ED-038D-4BA4-A48A-754C27F94E33&Options=info&Search=
Alerts Sign-up