03-099 - King County / Tukwila et al - Law Enforcement Mutal Aid and Mobilization

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AC �3- (V0 INTERLOCAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUTUAL AID AND MOBILIZATION BETWEEN THE CITIES OF KING COUNTY, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON POLICE, AND KING COUNTY 1 DATE OF AGREEMENT AND PARTIES This agreement, dated the first day of June 2003 for reference purposes only, is entered into by the undersigned municipal corporations or towns organized or created under the laws of the State of Washington, the University of Washington Police Department, and the King County Sheriff's Office 2 AUTHORITY FOR AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into as an interlocal agreement pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act as codified in Chapter 39 34 of the Revised Code of Washington, specifically RCW 39.34 080 3 PURPOSE OF THE AGREEMENT Each party has the power, authority and responsibility to provide police protection for its citizens within its boundanes. On occasion, the demand for law enforcement services within a jurisdiction may exceed that department's ability to respond in a timely manner When that occurs, the police department or departments of other jurisdictions may be capable of providing backup law enforcement services In order to fulfill their respective obligations to their citizens, the parties desire to provide backup law enforcement services to each other under the terms and conditions set forth below 4 MUTUAL AID LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES Each party will to the best of its ability, furnish mutual aid law enforcement services to, and at the request of, any other party whose police department is taxed beyond its ability to respond, and render law enforcement services in a timely manner Each jurisdiction shall confer police authority on those police officers from other jurisdictions providing mutual aid law enforcement services and enforcing the requesting junsdiction's ordinances. The mutual aid officers shall proceed at the direction of the requesting department's police chief or sheriff or their designee The responding department maintains the discretion to determine whether its own police department will not or cannot provide the requested mutual aid services. The responding department also maintains the discretion to determine at any time during the response that it may stop providing assistance Upon determining that it will not respond or that it will stop assisting, the department shall immediately notify the requesting department of the change in mutual aid law enforcement services provided. The responding department shall be the sole judge of its ability to respond or to remain, and assumes no liability for declining to respond or for leaving. 5 SERVICES INCLUDED For purposes of this Agreement, mutual aid law enforcement services shall mean supplemental response to assist at least one officer from the primary agency Such services will typically be of a first responder type of service such as patrol response Response protocols for this Agreement are outlined in "Addendum A" /t