combined-10th-11th-report.pdf

Negotiated Settlement Agreement, Combined Tenth and Eleventh Semi-Annual Report December 2008 " Quality Assurance Program feedback. The Investigations Section Lieutenant and Administrative Sergeant provide valuable feedback to division level investigators, discussing on-going investigative needs and concerns by way of face-to-face meetings, telephone calls, and email exchanges. Formal written feedback is provided using an investigative feedback form designed to help IAD identify where additional training or personalized attention is needed. = Provision of Investigative Plans. Each plan provides the division level investigator a template upon which to build his/her investigation. The plan is developed by the intake officer and further refined by the IAD Administration Section commander to provide clear guidance to the investigator. = Participation in Continuing Professional Training for sergeants. Sergeants are most often assigned to conduct division level investigations. Proper training and updates ensure that their investigations meet the same high standards as investigations completed in IAD. IAD is confident that its policies and systems, based on IAD staff institutional knowledge as well as input from the IMT and the City Attorney’s office, will continue to improve and adapt to the ever-changing law enforcement environment, well beyond the Agreement deadline of 2010. While much of what IAD does on a daily basis is centered on compliance with the Agreement, the division looks toward the future with an eye toward sustainability of best practices. IAD Compliance Unit Efforts The Compliance Unit is responsible for handling compliance with 21 of the I[AD-related Agreement tasks and works with OIG, the City Attorney’s Office, and the IMT in order to ensure that current policy complies with Agreement requirements. The Compliance Unit also revises policy related to accepting, processing, and investigating complaints. The Unit also conducts periodic reviews of the Department’s compliance with Agreement reforms in order to identify and resolve performance deficiencies. The Compliance Unit is the Division’s liaison to the IMT and routinely responds to requests for information from the IMT. Other IAD Accomplishments Several Department policies, including DGO M-3 (Complaints Against Departmental Personnel or Procedures), DGO M-3.1 (Informal Compliant Resolution Process), and Training Bulletins V-T (Discipline Policy) and V-T.1 (internal Investigation Procedures), were revised and several stipulations to the Agreement were negotiated to reflect the mutually agreed upon “best practice” of the Department. A new IAD Daily Incident Log was also developed to ensure compliance with Task 5, Complaint Procedures for IAD, including those task requirements that were not previously being tracked, and the IAD complaint line was redesigned to help ensure that no calls go unanswered. This reporting period, IAD investigators received training in the areas of Internal Affairs investigations, interview techniques, sexual harassment/discrimination investigations, retaliation allegations, and officer-involved shootings.