Policy Documents Flashcards
What are general orders?
Official method used to promulgate (make official) new department rules and regulations and to amend existing rules, contains orders governing, employee conduct, sick leave, diciplinary matters and procedures to be followed when performing official duties
Who issues memorandums?
The comissioner
What are memorandums?
Information issued to the members of the executive staff, heads of division/institution, and when appropriate to all members of the dept. contains instruction and information relating to the administrative and official business of the dept
Who issues directives?
Office of policy and compliance
Who issues general orders?
The commissioner
What are directives?
An order promulgated by the commissioner, implementing policy programs affecting the operations and fuctions of the dept.
What is and operations order?
And order issued to heads of department/institutions containing instructions, directing the implementation of procedural guidelines that may not be outlined in existing order affecting the operation and fuctions of correctional facilities and related areas under jurisdiction of the chief of department
Who issues operations orders?
Chief of department
Who issues teletypes?
Commissioner, first deputy commissioner, or chief of department
What is the purpose of teletypes?
To facilitate rapid department-wide communication. Transmit emergency orders and other information or data
Who issues institutional orders?
Warden of facility
What are institutional orders?
Orders developed many times from operations orders
Amend
To make better, improve. To change, revise, to correct
Supersede
To cause to be set aside, or dropped form use as inferior or obsolete and replaced by something else
Promulgate
To make official
