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Gardena Procedures Manual
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Chapter 2 - Organization and Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
200 - Organizational Structure and Responsibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
203 - Training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 3 - General Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
305 - Officer-Involved Shooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
306 - Firearms - Patrol Rifles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
310 - Domestic Violence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
312 - Temporary Custody of Juveniles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
313 - Senior and Disability Victimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
315 - Child Abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
316 - Missing Persons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
318 - Victim and Witness Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
322 - Report Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
323 - News Media Relations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
336 - Biological Samples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
341 - Volunteer Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 4 - Patrol Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
400 - Patrol Function Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
403 - Crime And Disaster Scene Integrity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
410 - Cite and Release Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
411 - Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Representatives. . . . . . . . . . . 71
424 - Portable Audio Recorders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
428 - Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 5 - Traffic Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
501 - Traffic Collision Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
502 - Vehicle Towing and Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
504 - Impaired Driving and Evidence Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
505 - Traffic Citations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 6 - Investigation Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
604 - Eyewitness Identification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
608 - Operations Planning and Deconfliction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 8 - Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
800 - Property and Evidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
801 - Records Bureau Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 9 - Custody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
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900 - Temporary Holding Facility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
901 - Custody Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chapter 10 - Personnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
1002 - Assignment Transfer Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
1008 - Communicable Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
1020 - Outside Employment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
1023 - Uniform Regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
1028 - Employee Speech, Expression and Social Networking. . . . . . . . . 145
Attachments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Risk Assessment - High Risk Operations Form.pdf. . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Risk Assessment High Risk Operation Form.pdf. . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Witness Transportation Consent Form.pdf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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