§ 36-8-3-10 — Police departments, chiefs, and captains; powers and duties

(a) The police department shall, within the
city:
(1) preserve peace;
(2) prevent offenses;
(3) detect and arrest criminals;
(4) suppress riots, mobs, and insurrections;
(5) disperse unlawful and dangerous assemblages and
assemblages that obstruct the free passage of public streets,
sidewalks, parks, and places;
(6) protect the rights of persons and property;
(7) guard the public health;
(8) preserve order at elections and public meetings;
(9) direct the movement of vehicles in public ways or public
places;
(10) remove all nuisances in public parks or public ways;
(11) provide proper police assistance at fires;
(12) assist, advise, and protect strangers and travelers in public
ways or at transportation facilities;
(13) carefully observe and inspect all places of business under
license, or required to have them; and
(14) enforce and prevent the violation of all laws in force in the
city.
(b) The police chief and each captain, in the captain's precinct or
district, may supervise and inspect all pawnbrokers, vendors, junkshop
keepers, cartmen, expressmen, dealers in secondhand merchandise,
intelligence offices, architectural salvage material dealers (as defined
in IC 24-4-16-3), and auctions. Any member of the department may be
authorized by the chief in writing to exercise the same powers.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-7
part.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by
P.L.63-2008, SEC.6.