21st-quarterly-report.pdf

Twenty-First Quarterly Report of the Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department May 4, 2015 Page 58 additional case in which retaliation was alleged. In that case, an employee alleged that his supervisor retaliated against him because he had made an IAD complaint. The retaliation aspect of this complaint was resolved when it was shown that the employee’s supervisor had been changed immediately after the complaint was made, and that the offending behavior was made prior to the complaint. The complaint was determined to be unfounded. OPD is in Phase 2 compliance with Task 37. Compliance Status: Phase 1: In compliance Phase 2: In compliance Task 40: Personnel Assessment System (PAS) – Purpose Requirements: Within 635 days from the effective date of this Agreement, OPD shall enhance its existing complaint-tracking and select indicator systems so that it has a fully implemented, computerized relational database for maintaining, integrating and retrieving data necessary for supervision and management of OPD and its personnel. This data shall be used by OPD: to promote professional police practices; to manage the risk of police misconduct; and to evaluate and audit the performance of OPD members of all ranks, employees, and OPD units, subunits and shifts. PAS shall contain information on the following: 1. All uses of force required to be reported by OPD; 2. OC spray canister check-out log (see Section V, paragraph D) 3. All police-canine deployments; where the canine is deployed in a search for or to apprehend a suspect(s). It does not include, deployments for the purpose of locating bombs, narcotics, missing persons, etc., where the canine is not involved in an investigated use of force (i.e., deliberately or inadvertently bites or injures a person) If such force occurs, a Use of Force report is required. 4. All officer-involved shootings and firearms discharges, both on duty and off duty, excluding an intentional discharge while at a range facility; a discharge while engaged in a lawful recreational activity, such as hunting or target practice; a discharge by Criminalistics Division personnel for the purpose of scientific examination; and a discharge at an object (e.g., street light, alarm box, door lock or vehicle tire) to accomplish a tactical police purpose that does not result in injury; 5. All on-duty vehicle pursuits and on-duty vehicle collisions; 6. All complaints, whether made to OPD or CPRB; 7. All civil suits and/or tort claims related to members’ and employees’ employment at OPD, or which contain allegations which rise to the level of a Manual of Rules violation; 8. Reports of a financial claim as described in Section VI, paragraph G (3).