City of Stanton - City Manager 09/19/06, 452k

1 Best Practices Goal Currentpracticesfor improving county and city law enforcement agencies LEA s policies and procedures may not ensure that these policies and procedures are evolving to a level of best practices Response Partially disagree The Sheriff s Department has practices in place to review and update policies and procedures on aregular basis toensure we maintain alevel consistent with best practices To ensure Orange County Sheriffs Department staffisaware and mindfulofcurrentand emerging laws innovative procedures and the acknowledged best practices in the law enforcement industry wehave aprocess in place to conduct ongoing review ofpolicies and procedures Extensive and diverse training is provided to all Department members which includes an interactive networking process with many outside agencies including California Sheriffs Association Orange County Chiefs and Sheriffs Association California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and the National Sheriffs Association The networking process with these outside agencies has proven invaluable in maintaining our collective expertise within our industry and ensuring the pursuit of bestpractices within ourorganization The Orange County Sheriffs Department has always been concerned with improving the services we provide to the citizens ofOrange County Constant review and analysis of our policies and procedures has been invaluable in ensuring best practices are implemented and our Department is actually providing the best service oriented and quality law enforcementpossible The Sheriff s Department has established a Risk Management Bureau within its Professional Standards Division One of the most important functions of the Risk Management Bureau is to review Departmental policies and procedures including any about which internal or external complaints have been received This requires Risk Management personnel to research and familiarize themselves with the various policies and procedures that have been adopted byother police agencies andor recommended by organizations seeking to improve the quality ofpolice work The goal is to ensure that the Departments policiesand procedures arecontinuously reviewed and compared tothe bestpractices in the industry OversightofOrange CountyLawEnforcementAgencies ResolvingaDichotomy Responsetothe GrandJury 8 22 06

IndeoendentReviews ofLEAs The use ofindependent reviews ofLEA s practices is limited to unique reviews rather than to periodic reviews of policies procedures andcompliance Reponse Disagree Currently the Orange County Sheriffs Department is subject to periodic and unique reviews in the form of internal and or external audits The purpose of these audits reviews isto maintain compliance with all applicable laws and statutes and to ensure bestpractices areincorporated into our policies and procedures Various internal as well as externalindependent entities are utilized to conduct these audits Based on their reviews of our current policies and procedures these reviewing bodies then make