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UTILIZATION OF SPECIAL SKILLS. The City recognizes that certain police officers, by their own initiative, may have obtained special skills and knowledge applicable to law enforcement work. Police officers possessing such special skills and knowledge must advise the Chief in writing of their possession of such special skills and knowledge and the manner in which they were obtained. The City reserves the right, if it is in the City's best interest, to utilize such special skills and knowledge. Officers assigned as SWAT Officers shall be paid one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each month in which such officers respond as SWAT Officers to a SWAT call- out. Officers assigned as Ordnance Technicians shall be paid one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each month in which they are required to respond as Ordnance Technicians to remove or dispose of a suspected explosive or incendiary device. Officers who are designated as “bilingual officers” by the Chief of Police will be paid an additional fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. In order to be designated as a “bilingual officer,” an officer must meet the competency level required by the City in the language designated by the City. In order for an officer to be called upon to act as a translator, the officer must be a designated “bilingual officer.”

UTILIZATION OF SPECIAL SKILLS. The City recognizes that certain police officers, by their own initiative, may have obtained special skills and knowledge applicable to law enforcement work. Police officers possessing such special skills and knowledge must advise the Chief in writing of their possession of such special skills and knowledge and the manner in which they were obtained. The City reserves the right, if it is in the City's best interest, to utilize such special skills and knowledge. Officers assigned as SWAT Officers shall be paid one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each month in which such officers respond as SWAT Officers to a SWAT call- call-out. Officers assigned as Ordnance Technicians shall be paid one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each month in which they are required to respond as Ordnance Technicians to remove or dispose of a suspected explosive or incendiary device. Officers who are designated as “bilingual officers” by the Chief of Police will be paid an additional fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. In order to be designated as a “bilingual officer,” an officer must meet the competency level required by the City in the language designated by the City. In order for an officer to be called upon to act as a translator, the officer must be a designated “bilingual officer.”