ยง 8-800 Police departments. The board of trustees of a village may, by
resolution, establish a police department in such village and appoint a
chief of police and such personnel as may be needed, and fix their
compensation. The board of trustees may abolish a police department
established pursuant to this section by local law, subject to permissive
referendum, and the department shall be deemed abolished as presented in
such proposition. The board of trustees of a village, upon establishing
or abolishing a police department, shall notify the commissioner of the
division of criminal justice services of such action within thirty days
thereafter.