Policy Text
Policy
314Fremont Police Department
Priority Response to the City Council Chambers
314.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines for the appropriate Police Department
response to calls for service at City Council meetings and establish a procedure for the Reporting
Party to follow. It is the policy of the Fremont Police Department to provide an immediate response
to calls for service at City Council meetings.
314.2 PRIORITY RESPONSE PROCEDURES
If a reporting party has prior knowledge that an agenda item may result in a call for police
services, the on-duty Watch Commander should be given advance notice of the potential need.
The reporting party can be the City Manager, Assistant City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk,
etc. Whoever places the call to the Police Department becomes the reporting party.
When police officers are requested at a City Council meeting, the reporting party should stay on
the telephone until the police arrive, and be prepared to answer the following questions:
(a)What is the problem (e.g., disturbing the peace, threatening behavior, act of violence,
etc.)
(b)How many are involved, or might sympathize with the suspect?
(c)What actions do you want the police to take (e.g., stand by, preserve the peace,
remove someone from the meeting, make a physical arrest)?
(d)Who do the officers contact and where do they meet the contact person? (It is
suggested that the same person meet the officers on each occasion and that they
meet outside the City Council Chamber doors.)
(e)If a crime occurs prior to the police arrival, and an arrest is desirable, the reporting
party or designee will be asked to make a citizen's arrest.
Communications Center personnel will assign two officers and one sergeant to all City Council
meeting calls for service.
The assigned units will respond without delay (Code 2), unless the information requires an
emergency response (Code 3).
Arriving units will make every effort to handle the police matter outside of the City Council
Chambers.
All responding units should be aware of the presence of audio and video equipment within the
City Council Chambers.
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