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A. Temporary Detention.

1. A peace officer who reasonably suspects that a person has committed a crime may stop the person and, after informing the person the peace officer is a peace officer, make a reasonable inquiry.

2. The detention and inquiry shall be conducted in the vicinity of the stop and for no longer than a reasonable time.

3. The inquiry shall be considered reasonable only if limited to the immediate circumstances that arouse the officer’s suspicion.

B. Protective Search.

1. A peace officer may frisk a stopped person for dangerous or deadly weapons if the officer reasonably suspects that the person is armed and presently dangerous to the officer or other person present.

2. If in the course of a frisk, the peace officer feels an object which the peace officer reasonably suspects is a dangerous or deadly weapon, the peace officer may take such action as is reasonably necessary to take possession of the weapon. [Ord. 887 § 5, 2015.]