Rules & Regs; Prohibited Conduct

Question 1

Abusive Treatement;

Answer 1

Officer/employees will not use any indecent, profane, or unnecessarily harsh language nor abuse the dignity of anyone.

Question 2

Borrowing;

Answer 2

Will not borrow from any off/employee anything from anyone; or borrow from any liquor establishment or assign salary to money lender, sell or assign wages or give any power of attorney for collection.

Question 3

Conduct Prejudicial to Public Peace or Welfare;

Answer 3

Will not not purposely commit an act to disrupt public tranquility or safety without just cause.

Question 4

Conduct Unbecoming an Officer;

Answer 4

Includes which brings the Department into disrepute or reflects discredit upon the officer as a member of this Dept. , or impairs the operation or efficiency of the officer.

Question 5

Controversial or Disparaging Remarks;

Answer 5

will not make any controversial or disparaging remarks against any race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or sexual preference of any person or group.

Question 6

Criticism and Malicious Gossip;

Answer 6

will not criticize any officer/employee, except in the line of duty as superior to a subordinate. Nor maliciously gossip of anyone or anything in department. Nor will cause to discredit, lower, or injure morale of personnel of the dept.

Question 7

Abuse of Dept Property;

Answer 7

Intentionally, negligently abusing, misusing, damaging or losing dept property or equpt. If dept property is found damage/lost and not reported, the last person using the property maybe charged and held responsible for damages.

Question 8

Use of Dept. Telephones;

Answer 8

not to be used for transmission of private messages w/o permission of CO. CO must also give permissions for any official toll calls.

Question 9

Use of Dept Vehicles;

Answer 9

Must have CO permission first, if not assigned, except in emergencies. Will not be used for personal business or pleasure.

Question 10

Discourtesy;

Answer 10

will not be rude, impolite, contemptuous, or insolent to any employee, member or the public

Question 11

False Info of Records

Answer 11

will not make or submit any false or inaccurate reports knowingly.

Question 12

Gambling;

Answer 12

will not participate in nay illegal game of chance or card playing, or illegal gambling in any police, building, station or elsewhere.

Question 13

Gross Incompetence;

Answer 13

No off/employee will perform any act or duty in such a manner as to be construed as blatantly incompetent or malfeasant.

Question 14

Impaired condition;

Answer 14

No off/employee will permit another off/employee to start or continue their duty when that person is not fit by means of physical, mental, emotional, or impaired condition. All such observations will be reported to OIC.

Question 15

Improper Associations;

Answer 15

Officer will avoid voluntarily maintaining or establishing relationships w/persons whom they know or should know are persons under criminal invest./indict. or have reputation to be involved in felony or criminal behavior, except in performance of official duties, w/ approval from either CO of Chief, or unavoidable if a family member.

Question 16

Improper Intercession;

Answer 16

Off/employee will not intercede nor cause another person to intercede w/ superior officers in the dept for preferential treatment in their behalf.

Question 17

Incompetence;

Answer 17

will maintain sufficient competency to perform their duty and to assume the responsibilities of their position. Examples; lack of knowledge of application of laws to be enforced, unwillingness/inability to perform assigned tasks, failure to conform to work standards by grade/rank/position, poor repeated evals/repeated infractions of rule and regs

Question 18

Incurring Dept Liability;

Answer 18

Off/employee will not incur a liability chargeable to the Dept w/o prior knowledge and consent of the chief.

Question 19

Insubordination;

Answer 19

off/employees will not refuse or fail to obey a lawful order issued by a superior officer.

Question 20

Interfering w/ court of justice;

Answer 20

will not take part or be connected w/, either directly or indirectly, any compromise or arrangement w/any person for the purpose of permitting an accused person to escape the penalty of their wrongdoing; or seek a continuance to otherwise interfere w/the course of justice. All negotiations will be disclosed to proper superior or officer of the court or hearing.

Question 21

Possession, Use of Intoxicating bev/drugs;

Answer 21

officer/employee will not while on duty, consume, drink, bring into the dept. any drug/alcohol. Will off duty not carry a weapon while under the influence or wear a uniform in public view, will not report to duty with intoxicants on their breath, will not off duty , render oneself unfit to report for duty.

Question 22

Loitering;

Answer 22

will not loiter in liquor stores, businesses or public places unless assigned.

Question 23

Neglect of Duty;

Answer 23

Includes; absent from duty w/o leave, leaving post w/o being relieved, failing to take appropriate police action when any crime, public disorder or other incident requires police attn, failing to give suitable attention to their performance of duty.

Question 24

Personal Business;

Answer 24

Officers/employees, while on duty, will not conduct personal business, purchase alcohol, purchase conspicuous amount of merchandise, unless required for duty.

Question 25

Prohibited places;

Answer 25

Except in the line of duty, an officer/employee will not visit or loiter near any bar, tavern, tap, lounge or other establishment, unless in actual or suspected violation of laws.

Question 26

Tobacco use;

Answer 26

while in performance of their duties, shall not use any tobacco products. Shall be limited to breaks or times when not performing regular duties. Uniform personal shall use tobacco only when out of public view.

Question 27

Undue Influence;

Answer 27

An officer or employee will not seek or obtain the influence or intervention of any person outside the department for the purpose of personal, advantage or advancement.

Question 28

Unlawful order;

Answer 28

No officer/employee will knowingly issue an order in violation of any laws or any dept reg. A subordinate will not obey and unlawful order. The sub will notify the superior of the illegality of the order.

Question 29

Unsatisfactory Performance (Sworn Officers);

Answer 29

Will maintain sufficient competency to perform their duties. With highest standard to carry out the objectives of the dept. Unsatisfactory performance is demonstrated by lack of knowledge of laws; unwilling or inability to perform a task, failure to perform to standards as to rank/grade, failure to take action involving police matters, AWOL, along with repeated poor evals.

Question 30

Warrants for Assault Upon a Police Officer;

Answer 30

an officer will not make application for a warrant on assault on themselves, while performance of their duty, w/o 1st reporting to CO and seeking permission.

Question 31

Custody of Dept. Weapons and Ammo;

Answer 31

Officer will have temp or permanent custody of all weapons/ammo issued to them. And will be accountable for the security and condition of said items.