Policy Text
CONCORD POLICE DEPARTMENT
GENERAL ORDER
JUVENILE OPERATIONS
GENERAL ORDER: 07.07 CREATED: December 1, 2003 ISSUE DATE: September 9, 2025
CALEA STANDARD: 44.1.1, 44.2.1, 44.2.2, 44.2.3, 82.1.2
NCLEA STANDARD: EFFECTIVE DATE: September 9, 2025
ACTION: Amends general order dated June 2, 2025 .
07.07.0 PURPOSE
The purpose of this general order is to establish guidelines for investigating incidents
involving juvenile victims and suspects in compliance with North Carolina state law.
07.07.1 POLICY
It shall be the policy of the Concord Police Department to be committed to the concept
that juvenile operations and delinquency prevention efforts are not limited to the
activities of any one division. All officers shall be familiar with the Juvenile Code fou nd
in Chapter 7B of the North Carolina General Statutes (NC GS) and shall be familiar with
juvenile abuse, neglect, delinquency, and undisciplined juveniles. All officers share the
responsibility for participating in and/or supporting the department’s juvenile operations
function.
07.07.2 DEFINITIONS
A. CARETAKER ( NC GS 7B-2101)
Any person other than a parent, guardian, or custodian who has responsibility for
the health and welfare of a juvenile in a residential setting. A person responsible
for a juvenile's health and welfare means a stepparent, a foster parent, an adult
member of the juvenile's household, an adult entrusted with the juvenile's care, a
potential adoptive parent during a visit or trial placement with a juvenile in the
custody of a department, any person such as a house parent or cottage parent who
has primary responsibility for supervising a juvenile's health and welfare in a
residential child care facility or residential educational fa cility, or any employee or
volunteer of a division, institution, or school operated by the Department of Health
and Human Services.
B. DELINQUENT JUVENILE ( NC GS 7B -1501(7) )
1. A juvenile less than 16 years of age but at least 10 years of age, who commits
a crime or infraction under State law or under an ordinance of local
government, including violation of the motor vehicle laws defined in Chapter
20 of NC GS, or who commits indirect contempt by a juvenile as defined in NC
GS 5A-31.
2. A juvenile less than 18 years of age but at least 16 years of age, who commits
indirect contempt by a juvenile as defined in NC GS 5A -31 or a crime or an
infraction under State law or under an ordinance of local government,
excluding:
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a. Violations of motor vehicle laws defined in Chapter 20 of the NC GS.
b. Any offense punishable as a Class A, B1, B2, C, D, or E felony if
committed by an adult, together with any offense based on the same act or
transaction or on a series of acts or transactions connected together or
constituting parts of a single scheme or plan of that offense, and any
greater or lesser included offense of that offense.
3. A juvenile less than 10 years of age but at least 8 years of age commits a
Class A, B1, B2, C, D, E, F, or G felony under State law.
4. A juvenile less than 10 years of age but at least 8 years of age, who commits a
crime or an infraction under State law or an ordinance of local government,
including violation of the motor vehicle laws defined in Chapter 20 of NC GS,
and has been previously adjudicated as delinquent.
C. JUVENILE
Except as provided in definitions of delinquent juvenile and undisciplined juvenile in
NC GS 7B -1501, a juvenile refers to any person who has not reached the person’s
eighteenth birthday and is not married, emancipated or a member of the Armed
Forces of th e United States.
D. UNDISCIPLINED JUVENILE ( NC GS 7B-1501(27) )
1. A juvenile less than 16 years of age but at least 10 years of age, is unlawfully
absent from school; or is regularly disobedient to and beyond the disciplinary
control of the juvenile's parent, guardian, or custodian; or is regularly found in
places where it is unlawful for a juvenile to be; or has run away from home for
a period of more than 24 hours or;
2. A juvenile who is 16 or 17 years of age and who is regularly disobedient to and
beyond the disciplinary control of the juvenile's parent, guardian, or custodian;
or is regularly found in places where it is unlawful for a juvenile to be; or has
run away from home for a period of more than 24 hours.
07.07.3 CUSTODY ALTERNATIVES