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VOLUNTARY COOPERATION AND OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE
MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE AND
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
This Voluntary Cooperation and Operational Assistance Mutual Aid Agreement
("Cooperation Agreement") is made as of this 3a day of Nam 4 a,,- , 2016
(Effective Date), by and between the CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, a municipal
corporation having its principal office at 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida
33139, and the CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, having its principal office at 100
North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301, state as follows:
RECITALS
WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of the governments of the City of Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, and the City of Miami Beach, Florida, to ensure the public safety of their respective
citizens by providing adequate levels of police services to address any foreseeable routine or
emergency situation; and
WHEREAS, because of the existing and continuing possibility of the occurrence of law
enforcement problems and other natural and man-made conditions which are, or are likely to
be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, or facilities of the City of Fort
Lauderdale Police Department or the City of Miami Beach Police Department; and
- WHEREAS, in order to ensure that preparation of these law enforcement agencies will
be adequate to address any and all of these conditions, to protect the public peace and safety,
and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the City of Fort Lauderdale and the City
of Miami Beach; and
WHEREAS, it is to the advantage of each law enforcement agency to receive and
extend mutual aid in the form of law enforcement services and resources to adequately respond
to:
(1) Continuing, multi jurisdiction law enforcement problems, so as to protect the public
peace and safety, and preserve the lives and property of the people; and
(2) Intensive situations including, but not limited to, emergencies as defined under
Section 252.34 of the Florida Statutes, or requests for certain law enforcement
services specified herein and as defined under Section 23.1225 of the Florida
Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Lauderdale and the City of Miami Beach have the voluntary
cooperation and assistance authority under the Florida Mutual Aid Act, Sections 23.12-23.127 of
the Florida Statutes, to enter into this Cooperation Agreement for law enforcement service
which:
(1) Permits voluntary cooperation and operational assistance of a routine law
enforcement nature across jurisdictional lines as allowed under Section 23.1225 of
the Florida Statutes; and
(2) Provides for rendering of assistance in a law enforcement emergency as defined in
Section 252.34 of the Florida Statutes.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN that the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, in consideration for mutual promises to render valuable aid in
times of necessity, do hereby agree to fully and faithfully abide by and be bound by the following
terms and conditions:
SECTION I: PROVISIONS FOR VOLUNTARY COOPERATION
Each of the aforesaid law enforcement agencies hereby approve and enter into this
Cooperation Agreement whereby each of the agencies may request and render law
enforcement assistance to the other in dealing with any violations of Florida Statutes to include,
but not necessarily be limited to, investigating sex offenses, robberies, assaults, batteries,
burglaries, larcenies, gambling, motor vehicle thefts, drug violations pursuant to Chapter 893 of
the Florida Statutes, backup services during patrol activities, and interagency task forces and/or
joint investigations as set forth pursuant to, and under the authority of Chapter 23 of the Florida
Statutes.
SECTION II: PROVISIONS FOR OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE
The aforesaid law enforcement agencies hereby approve and enter into this Cooperation
Agreement whereby each of the agencies may request and render law enforcement assistance
to the other to include, but not necessarily be limited to dealing with, the following:
1. Joint multi-jurisdictional criminal investigations
2. Civil affray or disobedience, disturbances, riots, large protest demonstrations and
assemblies, controversial trials, political conventions, labor disputes, and strikes.
3. Any natural disaster.
4. Incidents which require rescue operations and crowd and traffic control measures
including, but not limited to, large-scale evacuations, aircraft and shipping
disasters, fires, explosions, gas line leaks, radiological incidents, train wrecks
and derailments, chemical or hazardous waste spills, and electrical power
failures.
5. Terrorist activities including, but not limited to, acts of sabotage.
6. Escapes from, or disturbances within, prisoner processing facilities.
7. Hostage and barricaded subject situations, and aircraft piracy.
8. Control of major crime scenes, area searches, perimeter control, back-ups to
emergency and in-progress calls, pursuits, and missing person calls.
9. Enemy attack.
10. Transportation of evidence requiring security.
11. Major events, e.g., sporting events, concerts, parades, fairs, festivals, and
conventions.
12. Security and escort duties for dignitaries.
13. Incidents requiring utilization of specialized units; e.g., underwater recovery,
aircraft, canine, motorcycle, bomb, crime scene and police information.
14. Emergency situations in which one agency cannot perform its functional
objective.
15. Joint training in areas of mutual need.
16. Joint multi-jurisdictional marine interdiction operations.
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The following procedures will apply in mutual aid operations:
1. Mutual aid requested or rendered will be approved by the Chief of Police, or
his/her designee.
2. Specific reporting instructions for personnel rendering mutual aid will be included
in the request for mutual aid. In the absence of such instructions, personnel will
report to the ranking on-duty supervisor on the scene.
3. Communications instructions will be included in each request for mutual aid and
each agency's communications centers will maintain radio contact with each
other until the mutual aid situation has ended.
4. Incidents requiring mass processing of arrestees, transporting prisoners, and
operating temporary detention facilities will be handled per established
procedures of the requesting agency, or directors involved.
SECTION III: PROCEDURE FOR REQUESTING ASSISTANCE AND LIMITATIONS OF
ASSISTANCE
In the event that a party to this Cooperation Agreement is in need of assistance as set
forth above, the Chief of Police or his/her designee, shall notify the Chief of Police or his/her
designee from whom such assistance is requested. The Chief of Police or authorized agency
representative whose assistance is sought shall evaluate the situation and the agency's
available resources, consult with his/her supervisors, if necessary, and will respond in a manner
he/she deems appropriate.
The Chief of Police in whose jurisdiction assistance is being rendered may determine
who is authorized to lend assistance in his/her jurisdiction, for how long such assistance is
authorized and for what purpose such authority is granted. This authority may be granted either
verbally or in writing as the particular situation dictates.
Should a law enforcement officer be in another subscribed agency's jurisdiction for
matters of a routine nature, such as traveling through the area on routine business, attending a
meeting or going to or from work, and a violation of Florida Statutes occurs in the presence of
said party, representing his/her respective agency, HE/SHE SHALL ONLY BE EMPOWERED
TO RENDER ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE AND ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA
LAW. Should enforcement assistance be taken, said party shall notify the agency having normal
jurisdiction and upon the latter's arrival, turn the situation over to them and offer any assistance
requested including but not limited to a follow-up written report documenting the event and the
actions taken. This provision so prescribed in this paragraph, is not intended to grant general
authority to conduct investigations, serve warrants and/or subpoenas, or to respond without
request to emergencies already being addressed by the agency of normal jurisdiction, but is
intended to address critical, life-threatening or public safety situations, prevent bodily injury to
citizens, or secure apprehension of criminals whom the law enforcement officer may encounter
and such encounter results in a breach of the peace.
The parties acknowledge that the policy of the Florida Mutual Aid Act is to provide a
means to deal with disasters, emergencies, and other major law enforcement problems. This
Cooperation Agreement shall not extend police powers beyond the specific additional authority
granted by the Legislature in Chapter 23 of the Florida Statutes, which intent was to assure the
continued functioning of law enforcement in times of emergencies or in areas where major law
enforcement efforts were being thwarted by jurisdictional barriers.
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SECTION IV: COMMAND AND SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
The personnel and equipment that are assigned by the assisting Agency shall be under
the immediate command of a supervising officer designated by the assisting Agency. Such
supervising officer shall be under the direct supervision and command of the Chief of Police or
his/her designee of the agency requesting assistance.
SECTION V: CONFLICTS
Whenever an officer is rendering assistance pursuant to this Cooperation Agreement, the
officer shall abide by and be subject to the rules and regulations, personnel policies, general
orders, and standard operating procedures of his/her own employer. If any such rule, regulation,
personnel policy, general order or standard operating procedure is contradicted, contravened or
otherwise in conflict with a direct order of a superior officer of the requesting agency, then such
rule, regulation, policy, general order or procedure shall control and shall supersede the direct
order.
SECTION VI: HANDLING COMPLAINTS
Whenever there is cause to believe that a complaint has arisen as a result of a
cooperative effort as it may pertain to this Cooperation Agreement, the Chief of Police or his/her
designee of the requesting agency shall be responsible for the documentation of said complaint
to ascertain at a minimum:
1. The identity of the complainant.
2. An address where the complaining party can be contacted.
3. The specific allegation.
4. The identity of the employees accused without regard as to agency affiliation.
If it is determined that the accused is an employee of the assisting agency, the above
information, with all pertinent documentation gathered during the receipt and processing of the
complaint, shall be forwarded without delay to the agency for administrative review. The
requesting agency may conduct a review of the complaint to determine if any factual basis for
the complaint exists and/or whether any of the employees of the requesting agency violated any
of their agency's policies or procedures.
SECTION VII: LIABILITY
Each party engaging in any mutual cooperation and assistance, pursuant to this
Cooperation Agreement, agrees to assume responsibility for the acts, omissions or conduct of
such party's own employees while engaged in rendering such aid pursuant to this Cooperation
Agreement, subject to the provisions of Section 768.28, Florida Statutes, where applicable.
SECTION VIII: POWERS, PRIVILEGES, IMMUNITIES AND EXPENDITURES
(a) Employees of the City of Fort Lauderdale and the City of Miami Beach, when
actually engaging in mutual cooperation and assistance outside of their normal jurisdictional
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limits but inside this State, under the terms of this Cooperation Agreement, shall pursuant to the
provisions of Section 23.127(1), Fla. Stat. (as amended) and this Agreement, have the same
powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as if the employee was performing duties
inside the employee's political subdivision in which normally employed.
(b) Each party agrees to furnish necessary personnel equipment, resources and
facilities and to render services to each other party to this Cooperation Agreement as set forth
above; provided however, that no party shall be required to deplete unreasonably its own
personnel, equipment, resources, facilities, and services in furnishing such mutual aid.
(c) A party that furnishes equipment pursuant to this Cooperation Agreement must
bear the cost of loss or damage to that equipment and must pay any expense incurred in the
operation and maintenance of that equipment.
(d) The agency furnishing aid pursuant to this Cooperation Agreement shall
compensate its appointees/employees during the time such aid is rendered and shall defray the
actual travel and maintenance expenses of its employees while they are rendering such aid,
including any amounts paid or due for compensation due to personal injury or death while such
employees are engaged in rendering such aid.
(e) To the extent provided by applicable law, ordinance, or rule, the privileges and
immunities from liability, exemption from laws, ordinances and rules, and all pension, insurance,
relief, disability, worker's compensation, salary, death and other benefits that apply to the
activity of an employee of an agency when performing the employee's duties within the territorial
limits of the employee's agency apply to the employee to the same degree, manner, and extent
while engaged in the performance of the employee's duties extraterritorially under the provisions
of this Cooperation Agreement. The provisions of this section shall apply to paid, volunteer, and
reserve employees.
(f) Nothing herein shall prevent the requesting agency from requesting
supplemental appropriations from the governing authority having budgeting jurisdiction to
reimburse the assisting agency for any actual costs or expenses incurred by the assisting
agency performing hereunder.
(g) Should the City of Miami Beach receive reimbursement for expenditures from a
third party for a mutual aid event covered by this Cooperation Agreement, the City of Fort
Lauderdale shall be eligible to receive an equitable reimbursement share for any actual costs or
expenses incurred that are directly attributable to the event, provided such costs and expenses
are authorized by the third party for reimbursement purposes.
(h) Should the City of Fort Lauderdale receive reimbursement for expenditures from
a third party for a mutual aid event covered by this Cooperation Agreement, the City of Miami
Beach shall be eligible to receive an equitable reimbursement share for any actual costs or
expenses incurred that are directly attributable to the event, provided such costs and expenses
are authorized by the third party for reimbursement purposes.
(i) The parties acknowledge that the City of Miami Beach and the City of Fort
Lauderdale are authorized to pursue property seized pursuant to the Florida
Contraband Forfeiture Act. Each party shall have exclusive authority to initiate
forfeiture proceedings originating in its respective jurisdiction under the Florida
Contraband Forfeiture Act for any matters which arise from a mutual aid event
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that is covered by this Cooperation Agreement. Each respective party, upon
successfully prosecuting a forfeiture action, shall equitably share in those
proceeds seized, as acceptable by the Chief of Police of the City of Miami Beach
and Chief of Police of the City of Fort Lauderdale.
SECTION IX: INSURANCE
Each party shall provide, upon request, satisfactory proof of liability insurance by one or
more of the means specified in Section 768.28(16)(a), Florida Statutes, in an amount which is,
in the judgment of the governing body of that party, at least adequate to cover the risk to which
that party may be exposed. Should the insurance coverage, however provided, of any party be
canceled or undergo material change, that party shall notify all parties to this agreement of such
change within ten (10) days of receipt of notice or actual knowledge of such change.
SECTION X: EFFECTIVE DATE
This Cooperation Agreement shall take effect upon execution and approval by both parties
and shall continue in full force and effect until December 31, 2024. Under no circumstances may
this agreement be renewed, amended, or extended except in writing.
SECTION XI: CANCELLATION
Either party may cancel its participation in this Cooperation Agreement at any time upon
delivery of written notice to the other party.
In witness whereof, the parties hereto cause to these presents to be signed on the date
specified.
AGREED TO AND ACKNOWLEDGED this day of , 2016.
CITY OF MIAMI B H, FLORIDA CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
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