The Professional Standards & Compliance (PS&C) Section was created in 2022 within the Superintendent’s Office to oversee, coordinate, and implement the numerous opportunities for growth, advancement, and enhancement revealed to our agency through ongoing assessments and evaluations. The PS&C Section seeks to build a unified organizational vision focused on 21st Century Policing principles. Additionally, the section manages the department’s CALEA accreditation efforts to ensure ongoing compliance with nationally recognized law enforcement standards. Below are some of the initiatives currently underway:
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- Internal Affairs: Improving the transparency and accessibility of the complaint process to ensure that all complaints are thoroughly investigated and resolved in a timely manner.
- Use of Force: Incorporating additional de-escalation concepts into the use of force policy and strengthening the use of force review process to ensure that force is used only when necessary and in a manner consistent with best practices.
- Fair & Impartial Policing (Stops, Searches & Arrests): Developing a comprehensive stop, search, and arrest policy that exceeds constitutional standards and aligns with contemporary or recommended practices. This includes ensuring that the policy adequately addresses the legal and philosophical principles that support policing in a manner that promotes legitimacy and procedural justice.
- Organizational Culture, Leadership & Professional Development: The PS&C Section is actively updating internal leadership course materials to enhance student learning and engagement, with a focus on the Relational Leadership Model. These updates include increased student activities, improved organization of materials for both instructors and participants, and the integration of enhanced visual aids and videos to support key concepts.
- Early Identification System (EIS): Updating the EIS policy and program to ensure EIS functions to identify employees who may require support or intervention, and provides assistance to employees who exhibit signs of performance or stress-related problems.
- CALEA Accreditation: Working towards obtaining CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) certification to ensure that LSP adheres to nationally recognized standards of excellence in law enforcement operations.
- Training & Academy: Working with the Training Academy on initiatives that leverage training and policy to put employees in the best position for success. This includes conducting systematic needs assessments to inform annual or biennial training plans and enhancing critical programs such as the Field Training Officer (FTO) Program, pursuit training, and use-of-force training.
- Technology & Data Collection Resources: Working with other LSP sections to leverage technology to collect and analyze performance-based and activity-related data to better serve the public in a fair and effective manner.
The Professional Standards & Compliance Section is implementing foundational building blocks to advance organizational transformation and implement structural changes that will be essential for these initiatives to be sustained for decades to come.
For more information about the PS&C Section, email [email protected]
