POLICE COMMISSION SETTING UP NEW RULES FOR LAPD COMPLAINTS.Byline: Deborah Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Commission ordered a new protocol Tuesday for handling police complaints in response to concerns that a letter against Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. was improperly handled while the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. inspector general was out of town. The issue raised concerns not only about police complaint procedures, but about morale and discipline in the LAPD as well. Last summer, Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Sgt. Jace Kessler
alleged in a letter to former Inspector General Katherine Mader that
Parks made rude rude - [WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor design decisions. Opposite: cuspy.2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a public remarks about police union officials. Kessler received a response from the commission's executive director, Joe Gunn, who dismissed the complaint and forwarded it to Parks. City Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg Jackie Goldberg (born June 16, 1937) is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. raised the issue in December in council discussion of the inspector general position, arguing that Gunn's actions threatened Kessler's right to confidentiality. The Police Commission then directed interim Inspector General Dierdre Hill to investigate the incident. In response to Hill's investigation, the commission ordered new rules for dealing with complaints against the chief, a protocol for handling complaints in the inspector general's absence, and an effort to balance confidentiality of witnesses with officers' right to know of charges against them. The commission also directed the chief to immediately update the department manual to include the inspector general position, and directed Hill to report whether Kessler suffered any retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and because of his complaint. Police commissioners declined to say whether Gunn handled the incident improperly, saying personnel issues are confidential. But they said it pointed up the need to codify codify to arrange and label a system of laws. procedures for similar situations. ``There are issues that have surfaced because of this incident that we intend to address,'' said Commissioner T. Warren Jackson. Police Protective League Director Dennis Zine said the changes don't go far enough. ``I don't see a lot of meat here,'' Zine said. ``It's really brief.'' The City Council unanimously approved the commission's changes during a closed-session meeting Tuesday, and several council members said they felt the complaint had been mishandled. Even more importantly, they said, the incident raises larger concerns about the Police Department. Council members ordered that a tape of their session be released publicly, with items on personnel issues removed. |
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