Policemen.  


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  • (1) 
    To Obey Orders of Chief. The members of the Police Department shall obey the orders of the Chief and shall report to him all violations of City ordinances and laws of the state.
    (2) 
    Duty to Make Arrests. The Chief and each policeman shall arrest, with or without process, and with reasonable diligence, take before the proper court, every person found in the City in a state of intoxication or engaged in any disturbance of the peace or violating any law of the state or ordinance of the City.
    (3) 
    To Report Defects in Sidewalks and Streets. The patrolmen on their respective beats shall immediately report all defective and dangerous streets, walks and places which shall come to their notice. Such reports shall be made to the Chief at the central station who shall forthwith enter the same in a register kept by him for that purpose and at once transmit the same to the office of the Public Works Department.
    (4) 
    To Report Injuries to Person. In all cases of accidental injury when the police patrol is called to remove the injured, it shall be the duty of the Police Department to supply the City Attorney, upon blanks to be furnished by the latter for that purpose, with the names and addresses of all witnesses and with data as to the nature, cause and circumstances of the accident.
    (5) 
    Badges and Insignia. The Chief and each policeman, when on duty, shall wear the badge or insignia of their office on the outside of the outermost garment, over the left breast, conspicuously displaying the same so that the entire surface thereof may be seen, except when caution may dictate that the same shall not be exposed.
    (6) 
    General Regulation. All members of the Police Department shall conform to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners.