Internal Affairs Annual Report

Group: University of Maryland Police Department

URL: http://www.umpd.umd.edu/about/organization.cfm#about-ia

Description

Agency personnel are expected to conduct themselves professionally and courteously while achieving our mission to serve the community, protect life and property, and enforce the law. The agency investigates all allegations of inappropriate conduct of employees. Investigations are necessary to ensure successful resolutions of these allegations and to ensure compliance with standards established by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. Additionally, agency supervisory and administrative personnel conduct reviews of all instances of uses of force, traffic accidents, and departmental property losses. Use of force reviews are conducted in each incident where police officers discharge firearms, point firearms or FN-303 less-lethal launchers at persons, deploy shotguns or rifles from an agency vehicles, utilize defensive batons, deploy Oleoresin Capsicum (OC), take actions resulting in or are alleged to have resulted in injuries or death, apply physical force when conducting police functions, engage in vehicle pursuits or foot pursuits.

Tags

law enforcement, citizen complaints, internal affairs, investigation, officer misconduct, campus

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