(65 ILCS 5/1-4-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-4-8)
Sec. 1-4-8.
In addition to the powers of the police of any municipality
under Section 7-4-8 of this Act, the corporate authorities of any
municipality under 500,000 population may request of any other such
municipality or municipalities its police and police department equipment,
and any such requested municipality may furnish its policemen and police
department equipment, to aid the requesting municipality in suppressing or
attempting to suppress, any mob action, riot or civil disturbance occurring
within the requesting municipality, to preserve the peace, and to protect
the lives, rights and property of citizens, regardless of whether any
mutual assistance agreement exists under Section 11-1-2.1 of this Act.
Any municipality requesting and receiving such assistance from another
jurisdiction shall be liable or obligated to indemnify the furnishing
police department for any of its equipment damaged or destroyed, and the
individual policemen so furnished for any material damage to property,
injury to his person or on account of his death, resulting from the
unlawful activities performed or caused by the mob action, riot or civil
disturbance, being or attempted to be suppressed by the requesting
municipality.
Municipalities requesting police assistance under this Section shall
also be liable for any liability or obligation to indemnify the furnished
policeman, their legal representatives in case of death, or the furnishing
municipality or police department, as the case may be, for any liability or
obligation to indemnify created by Section 1-4-5 and 1-4-6 which may occur
as a result of any police assistance furnished under this Section.
Policemen furnished to other municipalities under this Section have all
the powers of the police officers of the requesting municipality and are
subject to the direction of the chief of police of the requesting
municipality; however, they shall retain all their pension and disability
rights while so furnished and working outside of their police district or
territory.
The corporate authorities of any municipality included in this Section
may contract to procure necessary liability insurance to cover any
liability created or imposed by this Section.
(Source: Laws 1968, p. 26.)
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