Sec. 8.02. - Departmental functions.
The department shall perform the following functions:
(1) Preserve the public peace, prevent crime, and detect and arrest offenders.
(2) Administer and enforce laws regulating, directing, controlling and restricting the movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and the general use of the streets by vehicles and the public.
(3) Operate a training program to maintain and improve the efficiency of the members of the department.
(4) Prepare reports on injuries to persons and property occurring by accident or otherwise on the streets, in alleys and other public places within the city as required by law.
(5) Provide a procedure for the sale, destruction or other disposition of all weapons or other articles used in the commission of crime or coming into the custody of the department; provided, that where such weapon or article may be used as evidence in either a civil or criminal proceeding, it shall in no way be disposed of except upon a written order of a court of law.
(6) Provide a procedure for the sale of unclaimed, lost or stolen articles coming into the custody of the department.
