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Recommendation to Authorize Interim Chief of Police In Consultation with the City Manager to Implement Pending and Future Updates to the Alameda Police Department Policy Manual to be Current with Best Practices and Statutory Requirements. (Police 3111)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Alameda Police Department (APD) contracts with Lexipol for the generation, retention, updating and publishing of our policy manual. Part of the contract includes periodic review and revision of the policy manual to reflect current best practices, emerging case law, and new legislative changes/mandates. There are currently 16 policies that have been flagged for review and update by Lexipol.
BACKGROUND
Prior to Lexipol, the APD operated on a set of General Orders that functioned as a policy manual for the Police Department. Under the General Orders concept, the policy manual was a paper document, and the Police Department and City Attorney's Office were required to manually monitor new best practices, case law, and legislature. Those new practices and laws would then have to be distilled into a new or modified General Order, which would then be printed and disseminated for training at the Police Department. This was a time consuming and cumbersome process that required a significant amount of City of Alameda (City) resources be expended to keep up to date.
Approximately 10 years ago, the APD entered into an agreement with Lexipol to create, maintain, update and publish a policy manual for the Department. Lexipol is a risk management company that specializes in the creation of electronic public safety policy manuals. They currently serve approximately 8,100 public safety agencies/municipalities, and reviewed approximately 9,000 legislative and regulatory changes last year to ensure the policy manuals they manage stay as current and comprehensive as possible. The pooling of resources caused by having so many public agen...
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