POLICIES AND TRAINING GENERALLY. To maintain high-level, quality service; to ensure officer safety and accountability; and to promote constitutional, effective policing, APD’s policies and procedures shall reflect and express the Department’s core values and priorities and shall provide clear direction to ensure that officers and civilian employees deliver effective and constitutional policing services. APD shall ensure that officers and civilian employees are trained to understand and carry out consistently and competently the duties and responsibilities specified in APD policies and procedures. To achieve these outcomes, APD agrees to implement the requirements below.
POLICIES AND TRAINING GENERALLY. 10. EHPD’s policies and procedures shall reflect and express the Department’s core values and priorities, and provide clear direction to ensure that officers lawfully, effectively, and ethically carry out their law enforcement responsibilities. EHPD and the Town shall ensure that all EHPD officers are trained to understand and be able to fulfill their duties and responsibilities pursuant to EHPD policies and procedures. EHPD and the Town shall ensure that supervisors have the knowledge, skills, and ability to provide close and effective supervision to each officer under the supervisor’s direct command; provide officers with the direction and guidance necessary to improve and develop as police officers; and to identify, correct, and prevent officer misconduct. To achieve these outcomes, EHPD shall implement the requirements below.
A. Policy Development, Review, and Implementation
11. EHPD shall develop and implement comprehensive and agency-wide policies and procedures that ensure consistency with, and full implementation of, this Agreement, and incorporate each requirement herein. Unless otherwise noted, all policies, procedures, and manuals shall be developed within 270 days of the Effective Date.
12. EHPD policies and procedures shall define terms clearly, comply with applicable law and the requirements of this Agreement, and comport with professional police practices.
13. EHPD shall review each policy or procedure related to this Agreement 180 days after it is implemented, and annually thereafter, to ensure that the policy or procedure provides effective direction to EHPD personnel and remains consistent with the Agreement, professional police practices, and current law, including incorporating mechanisms to promote and measure accountability and community engagement. EHPD also shall review policies and procedures as necessary upon notice of a policy deficiency during audits or reviews. Within 60 days of that review EHPD shall revise the policy or procedure and consult with the Joint Compliance Expert and DOJ. DOJ and the Joint Compliance Expert shall provide the same review and approval of revised policies and procedures as with the initial policies and procedures to ensure consistency with this Agreement.
14. EHPD’s Department-wide policies and procedures shall be collected in a Department- level policy and procedure manual, and unit-wide policies and procedures (or standard operating procedures) shall be collected in unit-level policy and procedure m...
POLICIES AND TRAINING GENERALLY. To maintain high-level, quality service; to ensure officer safety and
POLICIES AND TRAINING GENERALLY a. SCPD will maintain policies and procedures that are consistent with this Agreement and that provide clear direction to ensure that officers and civilian employees enforce the law effectively, ethically, and constitutionally. SCPD will ensure that all SCPD officers and employees are trained and able to fulfill their duties and responsibilities pursuant to SCPD policies and procedures.
b. After undergoing any training required by this Agreement, SCPD will ensure that all officers who take such training will be required to pass a test demonstrating a basic comprehension of the training material after it is presented.
c. SCPD policies and procedures will define terms clearly, comply with applicable law, and comport with best practices.
d. SCPD will apply policies uniformly and hold all officers accountable for implementing and complying with SCPD policies and procedures.
e. Upon request, SCPD will make available to the United States any policy the United States wishes to review. All policies and training curricula required by this Agreement will be provided to the United States for review within five business days of completion or modification. Within 60 days of receipt of any policy or training curricula for review, the United States will notify SCPD of any concerns it has regarding compliance with this Agreement, the Constitution, or federal law. SCPD will revise, modify, or delete any policy or training curricula required by this Agreement that the United States finds to be deficient unless SCPD shows, to the satisfaction of the United States, that it need not do so. If the parties disagree, the parties will attempt to resolve their differences in good faith.
f. SCPD will implement a mechanism to ascertain whether policies Rules and Procedures required by this Agreement are being followed and to measure the success of the revised, modified, or newly created Rules policies and Procedures. The mechanism will incorporate measuring officer accountability and seeking community input as part of its metrics.
g. SCPD will ensure that all policies and procedures are available to SCPD members in an electronic format.
h. SCPD will ensure that all revised or modified policies, procedures, directives, or orders are provided to SCPD members in a manner that clearly highlights or distinguishes any modification or change within the text of the policy itself.
i. After issuing a Rule and Procedure pursuant to this Agreement, SCPD will ensure that all SCPD personnel have r...
