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Street Cop Podcast

Oath in Civilian Complaints

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this archive episode, Dennis reminds officers to make sure the station commander or the officer in charge must take an oath with civilians when they file a complaint. Recorded on 06/15/2020. If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining

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0:00.0

One, we're here, we're here, we're here.

0:03.0

We're trying to be a hospital.

0:05.0

We're trying to be a street cop.

0:10.0

All right, we're here, we're live. We're good. We're rocking and rolling.

0:14.3

I. G live. We're good. All right, listen. You know, it's interesting. This one really is from

0:19.0

New Jersey police officers, but in reality, the application of it is universal universal so I don't know what your state says regarding what I'm going about to discuss but you need to check into it to see if you guys are conforming to what the state requires you to do and we're going to talk about when a civilian comes in,

0:35.1

not a police officer, and signs a complaint warrant

0:39.0

or a complaint summons, whatever it may be.

0:42.0

Are you having your station commander of the officer in charge swearing

0:45.6

then in before they're a lot to sign a complaint? So for example, in New Jersey, we're

0:50.2

going to use shoplifting. There's a indictable shoplifting. The complainant who's the theft,

0:57.2

you know, whose retail theft or whatever they are, the loss prevention officers,

1:01.6

they will contact a New Jersey Police Department. They'll have them

1:04.6

respond to their location. They'll tell them what happened. They'll say this was a shoplifting.

1:09.6

Police officer, New Jersey will then take them back to headquarters.

1:13.6

Type of complaint.

1:15.6

And often what happens is the complaint then

1:18.4

goes from the police officer's hands

1:20.8

or from the shift commander's hands,

1:22.0

whoever it may be, over to the complainant and they say,

1:26.0

sign these seven pieces of paper or this one, whatever it may be, it's a carbon copy, whatever it is.

1:30.0

And then what happens after that? They go and that's the formal complaint. The problem is you missed one crucial issue.

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