Development of Policies, Procedures, and Training Sample Clauses

Development of Policies, Procedures, and Training. 1. VPD will submit all related policies, training curricula, and lesson plans required to be written, revised, or maintained by the Agreement to the Evaluator and DOJ prior to publication and implementation. The Parties will share draft policies and meet as needed to reach agreement on whether revised policies and training materials are in compliance with the requirements of this Agreement, the Constitution, federal and statutory law, best practices, and current professional standards. 2. Forty-five days before a compliance deadline, as set out in the Oversight and Reform Plan, the Parties will submit the policy, training curriculum, or lesson plan to the Evaluator for review. The Evaluator will provide written comments to DOJ and VPD, which the DOJ shall consider in determining whether to approve the policy, training curriculum, and lesson plan. 3. If VPD, DOJ, and the Evaluator do not all agree that the policy, training curriculum, or lesson plan is consistent with this Agreement, legal requirements, best practices, and current professional standards, either Party or the Evaluator will provide the rationale for its objection in writing and the Parties and Evaluator will attempt to confer to resolve the disagreement. If the disagreement remains unresolved, DOJ will make the final determination. 4. VPD will begin implementation of policies and procedures within 30 days of DOJ approval unless otherwise specified or agreed to by the Parties in the Oversight and Reform Plan. 5. Within 30 days after issuing a policy or procedure pursuant to this Agreement, VPD shall ensure that all relevant VPD personnel have received, read, and understand their responsibilities pursuant to the policy or procedure, including the requirement that each officer or employee report violations of policy; that supervisors of all ranks shall be held accountable for identifying and responding to policy or procedure violations by personnel under their command; and that personnel will be held accountable for policy and procedure violations. VPD shall document that each relevant VPD officer or other employee has received, read, and sufficiently understands the policy. Training beyond roll call or similar training will be necessary for many new policies to ensure officers understand and can perform their duties pursuant to the policy. 6. Within 90 days from the effective date of the Agreement, VPD shall ensure that each VPD personnel member is advised of the contents of this Agreement and ...