(h) to regulate and license all private watchmen, private


detectives and private police serving or acting in the county and no person shall act as such without first having obtained such license as authorized by law or by ordinance. Penalties for the violation of regulations promulgated by the board under this subsection shall be prescribed by ordinance. From and after January 1, 1979, no municipality within the county shall enact or enforce any regulation or license of private watchmen, private detectives or private police. The expenses of regulation and licensing under this subsection shall be defrayed by fees from the licenses prescribed under this subsection and to the extent that said license fees are not sufficient to fund the regulation and licensing, such difference shall be financed by county general revenue funds. Section4.275. 1. The superintendent of police shall have supervision,


management, and control of, and be responsible to the board for the operation of the department of police and all personnel thereof and for the efficient and effective administration and performance of the duties, powers and functions of suppression of crime and other policing, andlawenforcement, including traffic control, in the county invested by this charter in the superintendent and in the department of police. The superintendent’s entire time shall be devoted to the duties of the office. 2. The superintendent of police and the department of police,


including the duly authorized officers, agents and deputized representatives thereof, shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of the sheriff and the constables with respect to preservation of order, prevention of crimes and misdemeanors, apprehension and arrest, conserving the peace and other police and law enforcement functions, except those powers and duties vested in other departments or officers of the county by this charter. In addition thereto, the superintendent and the department of police shall enforce the ordinances and orders of the council and have such other powers and duties as may be provided by ordinance including, but not limited to, the performance of police duties in incorporated areas of the county under contract authorizedorentered


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