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ORDINANCE NO. 78-45 <br />BY: Mr. Bennett <br />AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE <br />ADDITION QF TWO PATROLMEN TO THE POLICE <br />DEPARTMENT. <br />WHEREAS, the current complement on the police force does <br />not provide ample manpower in that it often allows for the deploy- <br />ment of only one or two police officers for patrol duty; and <br />WHEREAS, the schedulinq of vacations with the current <br />complement on the force has created a further shortage of manpower <br />requiring the remaining officers to work extended hours and week- <br />ends which would ordinarily be off-duty time; thus creating an <br />undue hardship on those police officers; and <br />WHEREAS, the current complement does not have adequate <br />manpower in order to provide adequate police protection for the <br />expanding populace of Mayfield Village, now, therefore, <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF r1AYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: <br />Section 1. The Mayor is hereby authorized to appoint <br />two (2) additional patrolmen to the current complement of the <br />Police Department. <br />Section 2. This is an emergency ordinance immediately <br />necessary for the preservation of the peace and safety of the <br />community in that the addition of these two (2) patrolmen will <br />help to insure the preservation of law and order. It shall there- <br />fore take effect immediately upon passage by the affirmative vote <br />of not less than five (5) members elected to Council and approval <br />by the Mayor or otherwise at the earliest time allowed by law. <br />PASSED: <br />ATTEST: <br />APPROVED; <br />President of Council <br />APPROVED AS TO FORM: Guerin L. Avery, Law Director <br />October 16, 1978