Article VII. Emergency Assistance
10.10.360 Yurok Tribal police.
(a) A person who alleges that he or she or another family or household member has been the victim of domestic violence or criminal harassment may request the assistance of the Yurok Tribal Police Department, and the Police Department shall respond to the request for assistance as a high priority matter.
(b) The Police Officer responding to the request for assistance shall take whatever steps are reasonably necessary to protect the victim and other household or family members from harm, including without limitation:
(1) Advise the victim and other household or family members of sources of shelter, medical care, counseling and other services;
(2) Transport the victim and other household or family members to appropriate facilities such as hospitals, the Court, or public or private facilities for emergency shelter;
(3) Upon request, accompany the victim and other household or family members to their residence(s), so that they may remove food, clothing, medication and such other personal property as is reasonably necessary to enable them to remain elsewhere pending further proceedings;
(4) Confiscate any weapon involved in the alleged domestic violence;
(5) Give the victim and other household or family members adequate notice of rights, remedies and services available;
(6) Arrest the alleged perpetrator as may be required by any applicable law;
(7) Enforce all valid protective orders without further order of the Court;
(8) Give full faith and credit to valid protection orders entered by the courts of any state or Indian Tribe and enforce those orders without further order of the Court; and
(9) Seek an emergency protective order. [Ord. 62A § 1601, amended, 11/7/2019.]