Policy Text
LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 02/01/96 STANDARD NO. 061 REVISED: 08/11/17
REPLACES: SOP Long Distance Telephone Calls 12-02.1- Rev. 01/01/03; Rev. 08/18/11
OBJECTIVE: To establish a policy that will allow Department personnel to make job-related
long-distance phone calls.
POLICY: It is the policy of the Homestead Police Department (HPD) to provide guidelines
for employees to make long-distance phone calls.
SCOPE: All employees of this Department shall be governed by the procedures set forth
below.
I. GENERAL:
A. There are numerous occasions when Departmental personnel have the need to make
long-distance phone calls. The Department has strived to make this process convenient
without the loss of strict accountability.
II. PROCEDURES:
A. All long-distance phone calls to be charged to the City must be work-related and
approved by a supervisor, prior to making the call.
B. No long-distance phone-calls of a personal nature are to be made by any employee of
this Department.