GM 303 Flashcards
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What type of non-criminal discipline does the department adhered to?
Progressive discipline
To achieve the desired degree of effectiveness, disciplinary procedures address three types of concerns?
Community or external concerns
Departmental or internal concerns
Employee concerns
Line complaints are subdivided into type A or type B. Which complaint is an example when the complainant requests contact by the sworn members supervisor?
A
Line complaints are subdivided into type A or type B. Which complaint is an example when the complainant does not wish to be contacted by supervisor but relates potential substantive problem or relates only non-specific or general information
B
All line complaints shall be investigated by the officer’s chain of command within how many days from the date of the written complaint?
21 calendar days
What kind of complaints generally constitute matters involving conduct that exhibit a significant variance from behavioral expectations established through formal training, departmental rules, regulations, policies or procedures which regulate a sworn members contact?
Formal complaint
What kind of complaints constitute citizen dissatisfaction with police services for some reasons other than complaints of officer misconduct?
Service complaints
What are some examples of service complaints? (Name 5)
1) call response times – not due to an officer’s negligence
2) handling of a civil matter – due to department policy or civil law
3) discretionary call screening
4) unavailability or delay of other police services
5) any other complaint that does not violate policy or procedure or involve Officer misconduct
What kind of complaint includes any conduct that exhibits the potential to require disciplinarian action in the form of a suspension that exceeds three calendar days?
Formal complaint
T or F
Can a suspension agreed to by a member be appealed by the Civil Service Commission, arbitrator, or any court?
No
Who must agree in order to expedite the disciplinary track from a written complaint notification of a formal complaint?
The chief and sworn member
What generally constitutes disciplinary matters limited to and involving a minor variance from the routine activities and responsibilities of the sworn members in question?
Line complaint
Copies of all complaints received or handled by members of the department shall be forwarded to?
Internal affairs unit
If the supervisor of the officer who is subject of the complaint is not available when a member receives a complaint by telephone who should they forward the complaint to?
The communications unit supervisor
If a member receives a telephone complaint The complainant should be forwarded to the internal affairs unit during business hours of what time?
0800–1800
When addressing formal complaints, who will route the preliminary complaint investigation packets through the chain of command to their section commanders or unit directors?
Supervisory officers
Receiving complaint investigation packets on formal complaints, who should forward those packets together with their recommendations to the division commander?
Section commanders/unit directors
Section commanders and unit directors receiving disposition report on line complaint shall implement disciplinary action when necessary up to how many days suspension?
Three
Who shall maintain a confidential disciplinarian log strictly for the purpose of ensuring timely disposition of complaints against sworn members?
Division commanders
The internal affairs unit shall investigate formal complaints of sworn member misconduct and present the findings to?
Chief advisory action Board
Officers under investigation should be informed how many hours prior to being interrogated or asked to respond to an investigation of general nature of the investigation by the internal affairs unit?
48 hours
Who should investigate police vehicle crashes?
Homicide unit
Who should review disciplinarian cases investigated by the internal affairs unit prior to their submission to the Chiefs advisory action bored?
Police legal advisor
Will formal disciplinary actions against sworn members be implemented without signed sworn complaints?
No, although oral complaints may receive supervisory review
Who may request or order if necessary a sworn member of any rank to submit a written report, answer interrogations, provide physical evidence, or otherwise cooperate in any manner during an investigation?
A sworn member of the internal affairs unit holding the rank of sergeant or above
Who administers the poly graph test to the sworn member only when the complainant’s results indicate truthfulness?
A licensed examiner
To avoid any undue embarrassment to an officer or the department the polygraph examination shall not be administered to an officer while in?
Uniform
Who reviews the complainant’s polygraph examination results?
The Chiefs advisory action board and the chief of police
Who reviews the sworn members polygraph examination results?
Only the chief of police