Saint Paul Administrative Code, Chapter 8 (Sec. 8.01)
Departmental functions:
The department shall perform the following functions:
- Preserve the public peace, deter and prevent crime, and detect and arrest offenders.
- Administer and enforce laws regulating, directing, controlling and restricting the movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and the general use of the streets by vehicles and the public.
- Operate a training program to maintain and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the members of the department through best practices.
- Prepare reports on injuries to persons and property occurring by accident or otherwise on the street, in alleys and other public places as required by law.
- Provide a procedure for the sale, destruction or other disposition of all weapons or other articles used in the commission of crime or coming into the custody of the department; provided that where such weapon or article may be used as evidence in either a civil or criminal proceeding, it shall in no way be disposed of except upon a written order of a court of law.
- Provide a procedure for the sale of unclaimed, lost or stolen articles coming into the custody of the department.
Updated January 14, 2019