A Focused Training Course Combining and Summarizing These Important Topics
What does procedural justice mean for law enforcement agencies?
What are ethics and how do they affect the way police officers do their job?
What is the “duty to intervene” and how can police officers be held liable for its failure? Perhaps most importantly, what have the Maine and Federal Courts said about all of this?
This course interweaves timely and important topics into an understandable, relevant, and easily digestible training. Using recently updated MCJA lesson plans and minimum standards as well as legal research, we will give you an understanding of how these topics affect the job every day. A “must-have training” for every law enforcement officer!
Topics Include:
- Definition of “Procedural Justice”
- Peels 9 Policing Principles
- Policing Ethics
- Current Research
- Review of Fourth Amendment Concepts relevant to Stops, Frisks, and Arrests
- The Duty to Intervene
- Federal and State Caselaw
Officers Will Review the Following:
- MCJA Minimum Standards Policy # 1 “Use of Physical Force”
- MCJA Minimum Standards Policy # 13 “Bias-Based Profiling”
- MCJA Lesson Plan on Implicit Bias and Bias Based Policing
- The Pillars of Procedural Justice
- The Benefits of Awareness
- IACP’s updated Law Enforcement Code of Ethics
“This project was supported by cooperative agreement number 15JCOPS-23-GG-02564-PPSE awarded by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U .S . Department of Justice. The opinions contained herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U .S . Department of Justice. References to specific agencies, companies, products, or services should not be considered an endorsement by the author(s) or the U .S . Department of Justice. Rather, the references are illustrations to supplement discussion of the issues. The Internet references cited in this publication were valid as of the date of this publication. Given that URLs and websites are in constant flux, neither the author(s) nor the COPS Office can vouch for their current validity.”
