combined-10th-11th-report.pdf

Negotiated Settlement Agreement, Combined Tenth and Eleventh Semi-Annual Report December 2008 REPORTING PROCEDURES Task 33: Misconduct ¢ Settlement Agreement Section VI. A; page 23, line 25 — page 24, line 16 (lead-in page 23, lines 23-24) e Assigned Unit: BOS Settlement Agreement Language “Within 154 days from the effective date of this Agreement, OPD shall establish policy and procedures for the following: Misconduct OPD personnel shall report misconduct by any other member or employee of the Department to their supervisor and/or IAD. The policy shall state that corrective action and or discipline shall be assessed for failure to report misconduct. OPD shall require every member and employee encountering a use of force that appears inappropriate, or an arrest that appears improper, to report the incident to his/her supervisor and/or IAD. OPD shall establish and maintain a procedure for a member/employee to report police misconduct on a confidential basis. e Any member/employee of OPD may report a suspected case of police misconduct confidentially to the commander of IAD. ¢ The member/employee reporting this conduct shall indicate clearly to the commander of IAD that the report is being made under these confidential provisions. e The report may be made in person, by telephone, or in writing. The IAD Commander shall document the report in a confidential file that shall remain accessible only to the IAD Commander. © The case shall be investigated without disclosure of the complainant’s name, unless and until such disclosure is required by law. This confidential reporting procedure shall be made known to every member/ employee of OPD and to all new members/employees of OPD within two (2) weeks of hiring.” Status: In Policy, Training, and Partial Practice Compliance Deliverables e Departmental General Order D-16, Check-In and Orientation e September 1, 2002 Manual of Rules revisions: « Manual of Rules Section 314.48, Reporting Violations of Laws, Ordinances, Rules or Orders Manual of Rules Section 314.49, Confidential Reporting of Police Misconduct Manual of Rules Section 370.18, Arrests Manual of Rules Section 370.27, Use of Physical Force Training Bulletin V-T.3, Reporting Misconduct 64