Policy Text
Policy Delano Police Department
419 Delano PD Policy Manual
Criminal Organizations
419.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the Delano Police Department appropriately utilizes
criminal intelligence systems and temporary information files to support investigations of criminal
organizations and enterprises.
419.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Criminal intelligence system - Any record system that receives, stores, exchanges or
disseminates information that has been evaluated and determined to be relevant to the
identification of a criminal organization or enterprise, its members or affiliates. This does not
include temporary information files.
419.2 POLICY
The Delano Police Department recognizes that certain criminal activities, including but not limited
to gang crimes and drug trafficking, often involve some degree of regular coordination and may
involve a large number of participants over a broad geographical area.
It is the policy of this department to collect and share relevant information while respecting the
privacy and legal rights of the public.
419.3 CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS
No department member may create, submit to or obtain information from a criminal intelligence
system unless the Chief of Police has approved the system for department use.
Any criminal intelligence system approved for department use should meet or exceed the
standards of 28 CFR 23.20.
A designated supervisor will be responsible for maintaining each criminal intelligence system that
has been approved for department use. The supervisor or the authorized designee should ensure
the following:
(a) Members using any such system are appropriately selected and trained.
(b) Use of every criminal intelligence system is appropriately reviewed and audited.
(c) Any system security issues are reasonably addressed.
419.3.1 SYSTEM ENTRIES
It is the designated supervisor’s responsibility to approve the entry of any information from a
report, field interview (FI), photo or other relevant document into an authorized criminal intelligence
system. If entries are made based upon information that is not on file with this department, such as
open or public source documents or documents that are on file at another agency, the designated
supervisor should ensure copies of those documents are retained by the Records Division. Any
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