Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 279-221 Appointment and qualifications of chief; powers and duties.
Sec. 279-221. - Appointment and qualifications of chief; powers and duties.
(a) The mayor shall appoint the chief of the Indianapolis metropolitan police department, after consultation with the sheriff and subject to city-county council confirmation. The chief shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor and reports directly to the mayor.
(b) The chief, after consultation with the sheriff, shall appoint members to the rank of assistant chief, deputy chief, district deputy chief or equivalent positions, and shall present them in person to the sheriff and to the city-county council's public safety and criminal justice committee annually.
(c) In order to qualify for appointment, the chief must meet the requirements under IC 36-8-4-6.5.
(d) If a person was a member of the department before the person's appointment as the chief of the department, upon the expiration of the person's term as chief, the board shall appoint the person to the permanent rank in the department that the person held at the time of the person's appointment as chief.
(e) If the person, during the person's tenure as chief, has qualified, in accordance with the promotion procedure prescribed by the board in its rules, for a rank in the department that is higher than the rank the person held before the persons appointment as chief, the board shall, upon the expiration of the person's term as the chief, appoint the person to the rank for which the person has qualified under the promotion procedure, if there is a vacancy in that rank.
(f) The chief shall have general authority over all matters, personnel and property relating to and connected with the department; unless otherwise restricted by law. This authority includes the following powers and duties:
(1) To supervise and coordinate the department's activities, including but not limited to dividing the city into geographical areas for administrative and operational purposes;
(2) To oversight of dispatch and communications to the extent these functions have not been reserved by law to a different unit of government;
(3) To determine and implement procedures, policies, orders, rules or regulations by which operations are to be conducted;
(4) To administer and oversee, with the mayor as provided in this code, the city's police merit system relating to appointment, transfer, discipline and removal of sworn employees pursuant to applicable rules, regulations, and laws in accordance with the established merit system;
(5) To make general and special rules and regulations for the management and discipline of the department, to the extent such duties and powers are not granted to the police merit board;
(6) To administer the hiring and discipline of civilian employees and make recommendations to the city's division of human resources regarding civilian employee compensation and benefits;
(7) With approval of the mayor, to fix the number of members and employees of the department;
(8) To set work schedules and require employees of the department to work overtime as warranted and permitted;
(9) To initiate, prepare, submit and administer the department's budget in accordance with applicable law;
(10) To purchase, rent or improve any real estate or personal property, subject to appropriations therefor by the city-county council and subject to the powers of the mayor and the board of public health and safety;
(11) To purchase or obtain necessary supplies, equipment, and services; subject to the authority of the board of the office of public safety and purchasing laws;
(12) To coordinate the activities of the various public safety agencies to work in conjunction with the director of the office of public health and safety, the chief of the fire department, sheriff or coroner of the county or and any other agency that can help with the safeguarding of citizens and property throughout the city;
(13) To temporarily appoint additional personnel on application of any person or corporation in response to any emergency, riot or insurrection as declared by the mayor, which persons the chief may remove at any time without hearing or notice or assigning any cause;
(14) To administer the oath or to take depositions of any persons summoned in any proceedings;
(15) To adopt rules regulating the giving of a bond of an appointee;
(16) To delegate to the personnel employed in the department authority to act in the chief's behalf as provided in IC 36-3-5-5(c);
(17) Serve as the co-applicant for a warrant or an extension of a warrant under IC 35-33.5-2;
(18) To take such actions as may be necessary and appropriate to accomplish accreditation of the police department as required by section 279-105 of the Code;
(19) To report biannually to the public safety and criminal justice committee of the council, which report shall include:
a. CALEA Accreditation status;
b. Number of employee civilian and sworn discipline cases investigated and disposition; and
c. Recommended reforms from the IMPD Training Academy; and;
(20) Any other powers that may be granted by law or the mayor.
(G.O. 110, 2005, § 1; G.O. 2, 2008, § 8; G.O. 47, 2009, § 8; G.O. 13, 2016, § 20)