Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE:
FIREARMS – INVOLVED OFFICER STATUS
NO: G-500
APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE:
August 1, 1990
REVIEWED:
11/10/2017
REVISED:
04/20/2005
UPDATED:
11/10/2017
G-500-1
POLICY
The Sheriff’s Office recognizes that often following an incident resulting in a life-threatening
injury or death, officers suffer varying degrees of emotional trauma. In some cases, it may occur
immediately or several hours, days, or months later.
In an effort to lessen this traumatic impact on the officer(s), and to aid the Sheriff’s Office in an
objective resolution of the incident, the involved officer(s) shall immediately be placed in an
administratively deferred duty assignment. Such assignments will be made by the involved
officer(s) Division Commander.
This deferred duty status shall be reviewed by the appropriate Chief Deputy, who will determine
when the involved officer(s) may return to full duty st