82-036 - Port of Seattle / Tukwila et al - Mutual Aid Police Services

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INTER- DEPARTMENTAL MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT (CIVIL DISTURBANCE OR RIOTS POLICE SERVICES) This agreement is entered into pursuant to R.C.W. 39.34, the inter -local cooperation act, and among the following municipalities Renton, Tukwila, Kent, Auburn, Enumclaw, and Port of Seattle. WHEREAS, It is necessary that the police resources and facilities of the above named Cities be made available to prevent and combat the effects of actual and potential civil disturbances or riots, and WHEREAS, It is desirable that each of the parties hereto should voluntarily aid and assist each other in such event, by the interchange of police services and facilities to cope with the problems which would arise in such event; and WHEREAS, It is necessary and desirable that a cooperative agreement be executed for the interchange of such mutual aid on an inter departmental basis; NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED by and each and all of the parties hereto as follows 1. Each party shall develop a plan providing for the effective mobilization of its police resources and facilities to cope with actual and potential civil disturbances or riots. 2. Each party agrees to furnish such resources and facilities and to render services to each and every other party to this agreement to prevent and combat any such Emergency, Disturbance or Riots in accordance with mutual aid operational plans presently under consideration for adoption, whether heretofore or hereafter adopted, detailing the method and manner by which such Resources, Facilities, and Services are to be made available and furnished, which operational plans may include provisions for Training and Testing to make such mutual aid effective, provided, however, that no party shall be required to deplete unreasonably its own police resources, facilities, and services in furnishing such mutual aid nor to participate if, under certain circumstances, it deems it in its best interests to forego partici- pation. 3. It is expressly understood that this agreement and the operational plans adopted pursuant thereto shall not supplant existing agreements between some of the parties hereto providing for the exchange or furnishing of certain types of facilites and services on a reimbursable, exchange, or other basis, but that the mutual aid extended under this agreement and the operational plans adopted pursuant thereto, shall be without reimbursement unless otherwise expressly provided for by the parties to this agreement and that such mutual aid is intended to be available in the event of an emergency, disturbance or riot of such magnitude that it is, or is likely to be, beyond the control of a single party and requires the combined forces of several or all of the parties to this agreement to combat.