Ethics and Professionalism

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Ethics and Professionalism
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Ethics and Professionalism

• Follow-up to 100 Day plan recommendation
• Code of Values that guides our choices
• Honesty, Trustworthiness, Respect, Justice
  Fairness, Responsibility, Caring Concern for
  others, Civic Virtue Citizenship

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History

• Began in 1996 with 8 hours training session
• All recruits receive Ethics Professionalism
  training
• Police Training Officers New patrol supervisors

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Ethics and Professionalism

• Ethics committee
• Code of conduct
• Ethical decision making model
• A.C.T.
• Alternatives
• Consequences
• Tell
• Early Intervention Training

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Short Term Goals

• Ethical component in all training (initiated in
  2007)
• On-Line course
• Business Plan

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Long Term Goals

• Ethical component in all training (ongoing)
• Investigative Skills Education Plan
• Ethics Training for all supervisors
• Annual ethics training
• Reinforcement strategies
• Audit and evaluation process

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Summarizing

• Ethics is a high priority for the EPS
• Building on the ethics program that began in 1996
• Initiatives already in place
• Short Long term goals