(70 ILCS 200/240-40)
Sec. 240-40. Security police force. The Board of the
Authority may establish and maintain a Security
Police Force and may define and prescribe all such peace officers' duties
and compensation. Every security police officer appointed by the Board
to such Security Police Force, as the same shall be from time to time hereafter
constituted, shall have and is hereby vested with police powers, and is
hereby authorized to act as a conservator of the peace within and upon driveways,
sidewalks and property controlled by such Authority, and shall have power
to make arrests or cause to be arrested, with or without process, any person
who breaks the peace, or may be found violating any of the penal ordinances
of such Authority, or of the City of Rockford or any criminal law of the State.
An arrest may be made by any such officer without a warrant when a criminal
offense is committed or attempted in his presence or when a criminal offense
has, in fact, been committed, and the officer has reasonable ground for
believing that the person to be arrested has committed it. Any person so
arrested shall, without unnecessary delay, be taken by such officer before
the circuit court of the county having jurisdiction of the offense committed
or charged against such person, and such police officer shall thereupon
make and file a complaint in writing under oath, against such defendant,
charging the violation by such defendant of such statute or ordinance, and
such offender shall thereupon be dealt with according to law in the same
manner as if he had been arrested in the first instance under warrant lawfully
issued. However, no member of any such Security Police Force shall be vested
with any police power outside the limits of the metropolitan area except
pursuant to and in accordance with an intergovernmental cooperation agreement
to which the Authority is a party.
In all actions for the violation of any ordinance of the Authority, the
first process shall be a summons or a warrant. A warrant for the arrest
of an accused person may issue upon the affidavit of any person that an
ordinance has been violated, and that person making the complaint has reasonable
grounds to believe that the party charged is guilty thereof. Every person
arrested upon a warrant, without unnecessary delay, shall be taken before
the proper officer for trial.
The Board of the Authority may establish reasonable eligibility requirements
for appointment to such Security Police Force relating to health, habits
and moral character. However, no person may be appointed hereunder unless
that person is at least 21 years of age. No person may be appointed to
or be retained in the Security Police Force unless that person is of good
character and not a habitual drunkard, gambler or a person convicted of
a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude. All such Security Police
Force personnel authorized to carry weapons shall receive a course of training
in the legal and practical use of such weapons as is required of a police
officer under the Peace Officer and Probation Officer Firearm Training Act, and all such Security Police Force
personnel shall also have received the training and certification required
by the Illinois Police Training Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-725, eff. 1-1-15.)
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