Waterloo Police Department General Orders

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ADMINISTRATION

General Order

  1. Written Directive System
  2. Department Rules and Regulations (Priority)
  3. Citizen Complaints
  4. Disciplinary Actions/Pre-Termination Hearing Procedures
  5. Commendations and Awards
  6. Personnel Assignments
  7. Use of Force/Officer Involved Shootings (Priority)
  8. Trade Time
  9. Certificates of Training
  10. Travel Policy/Use of Department Issue Credit Cards
  11. Department Honor Guard
  12. Shooting Review Board
  13. Dissemination of Public Records--Police and Media Relations During Crisis/High Risk Incidents
  14. Off-Duty Employment
  15. Police Officer & Police Sergeant Performance Evaluations
  16. Police Command Staff Performance Evaluation
  17. Domestic Violence (Priority)
  18. Outside Speaking Engagements
  19. Relatives in the Workplace, Duties and Assignments
  20. Alternative Productive Work

OPERATIONS

General Order

  1. Outside Agency Request for Assistance
  2. Meals and Breaks
  3. Operation of Official Vehicles (Priority)
  4. High Speed Pursuit/Pursuit Driving Report (Priority)
  5. Property and Evidence
  6. Alarm Response
  7. Confidential Informants
  8. Removal of Vehicles
  9. Motorcycle Units, Operations and Duty Specific Requirements
  10. Investigation of Criminal Offense Cases/Destruction of Field Notes
  11. In-Car Mobile Recording Equipment
  12. Field Investigative Contacts/Racial Profiling
  13. Arrest by Officers of the Waterloo Police Department
  14. Patrol Deployment Basics
  15. Directed Patrol
  16. Accounting of Confidential Funds
  17. Citations in Lieu of Arrest
  18. High Risk Incidents (Priority)
  19. Training Center/Outdoor Firearms Range
  20. Field Training/Evaluation Program
  21. Crime Scene Investigator and Crime Lab Investigator Utilization Procedures
  22. Waterloo Police Reserve Unit
  23. Bomb and Hazardous Device Incidents (Priority)
  24. Hazardous Substances/Clandestine Laboratories (Priority)
  25. Exposure to Infectious Diseases (Priority)
  26. Canine Unit Operations
  27. Specialized Travel/Training
  28. Seized and Forfeitable Vehicles, Large Items, and Flammable Liquids
  29. Operation Locate Alert
  30. Mounted Patrol Unit Operations
  31. Prisoner-Inmate Transports
  32. Deployment of Department Issue Patrol Rifle (Priority)
  33. Amber Alert
  34. TASER Deployment (Priority)
  35. Vehicle Impound Inventory

RECORDS AND COMMUNICATIONS

General Order

  1. Reserved
  2. Reserved
  3. Runaways, Missing Persons and Attempt to Locate
  4. Written Correspondence to Outside Individuals or Agencies
  5. Reserved
  6. Reserved
  7. Arrest Warrants
  8. Reserved
  9. Intelligence Information/Memos
  10. Written or Typed Statements
  11. Reserved
  12. Reserved
  13. Reserved
  14. Reserved
  15. Incident File - Entry/Retention/Deletion/Archival
  16. Calls for Service Data - Retention/Deletion/Archival
  17. Reserved
  18. Use of the I.O.W.A./N.C.I.C. Telecommunication System

UNIFORMS, EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES

General Order

  1. Clothing and Accessories - Uniformed Officers and Record Clerks/"Class A" Uniform
  2. Clothing and Accessories - Non-Uniformed Officers
  3. Firearms and Ammunition
  4. Clothing and Accessories - Authorized Issue/Replacement
  5. Authorized Batons