Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE:
EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE – DUTIES/PERFORMANCE
NO: D-200
APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE:
August 1, 1990
REVIEWED:
8/25/2017
REVISED:
4/20/2005
UPDATED:
8/25/2017
D-200-1
POLICY
It is the policy of the Sheriff’s Office that all its members perform their duties in a competent,
efficient, and professional manner in conformity with the policies, rules, regulations, and orders
of the Sheriff’s Office and the County of Kern.
It is the intent of the Sheriff’s Office to diligently investigate allegations of poor performance
following accepted investigative standards, the Peace Officers Procedural Bill of Rights
(Government Code 3300 et.seq.) as applicable and current statutory and case law. If employee
performance requires the imposition of disciplinary action to correct the performance, such
disciplinary action shall be taken in an informed, reasonable, timely, fair, and uniform fashion,