2.08.026 Preliminary safety inspection.
The purpose of this section is to identify readily apparent and highly dangerous substances which would normally be brought into the police station and discovered in an inventory upon those premises, but which should not be brought into the police station due to the extreme and obvious danger they present to persons and property. This section applies to containers listed in subsection A of this section which are inevitably destined for arrival at the police station. This section shall only be triggered when a person is taken into custody by an officer, the officer knows the officer will be transporting the person to the police station (or if to another facility, the officer retains custody of containers that the other facility has rejected), and the officer knows the officer will be conducting the manner of inspection set forth in BC 2.08.035.
A. The officer shall visually note any purse, sack, backpack, fanny pack, suitcase, or other container designed for, or actually used for, the purpose of carrying personal items, when it is inevitable that the container will be arriving at the police station.
B. Before entering the police station the officer shall conduct a preliminary safety inspection, which is defined as a cursory visual, smell, listen or feel of the personal property, to identify items such as:
1. Explosive devices such as bombs, hand grenades or other similar military ordnance, plastic explosive, or incendiary explosive devices.
2. Toxic or unstable chemicals such as gasoline, nerve gas or similar chemical weapons, or substances used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
3. Biologic weapon substances, including material such as strains of anthrax, ebola, bubonic plague, or other biologic warfare agent.
C. Property described in subsection B of this section which is discovered in a preliminary safety inspection shall be noted on the inventory form in the course of the identification of property required by BC 2.08.040. The property shall be processed by a second officer according to existing orders or procedures of the Beaverton police department.
D. The officer shall not remove any items of personal property from containers during the preliminary safety inspection other than the dangerous items listed in subsection B of this section.
E. Closed containers which are opened pursuant to this section shall be immediately closed again after the preliminary safety inspection. [BC 2.08.026, added by Ordinance No. 4385, 3/20/06; amended by Ordinances No. 4612, 2/19/13, Ordinance No. 4670, 12/8/15]