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Authorizing the City to enter into a Joint Powers Agreement, on behalf of the Police Department, with the Metropolitan Council, on behalf of its Metropolitan Transit Police Department for mutual aid and emergency services.
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul, Police Department (SPPD) wishes to enter into a Joint Powers Agreement with the Metropolitan Council); and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 473.407, the Council established the MTPD to police its transit property and transit routes, to carry out investigations, and to make arrests. The jurisdiction of MTPD is limited to offenses relating to Council transit property, equipment, employees, and passengers and includes traffic lanes designed for bus or transit use, freeway or expressway shoulders in the seven-county metropolitan area used by authorized transit buses and Metro Mobility buses, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes used by transit buses, and
WHEREAS, MTPD is authorized to exercise general law enforcement agency authority to assist any law enforcement agency in implementing or carrying out law enforcement activities, programs, or initiatives upon request from, or under an agreement with, any law enforcement agency and subject to the availability of MTPD’s personnel and other resources, and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, the City has created a police department to provide for the government and good order of the City, the suppression of vice and immorality, the prevention of crime, the protection of public and private property, the benefit of residence, trade, and commerce, and the promotion of health, safety, order, convenience, and the general welfare within the geographical boundaries of the City. SPPD officers are also authorized transit representatives pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 609.855, subd. 6(g)., and
WHEREAS, The parties acknowledge that SPPD has primary law enforcement jurisdiction within the City, and that both police departments have concurrent jurisdiction over transit property and transit routes within the City.
WHEREAS, upon execution, this agreement will become effective and expire February 16, 2028, now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council hereby authorizes the proper city officials to execute the Agreements in a form and content substantially as set forth in the attached hereto.