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Policy 201Santa Ana Police Department Santa Ana PD Policy Manual Copyright Lexipol, LLC 2019/07/09, All Rights Reserved. Published with permission by Santa Ana Police DepartmentDepartmental Directives - 1Departmental Directives 201.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE Departmental Directives establish an interdepartmental communication that may be used by the Chief of Police to make immediate changes to policy and procedure consistent with the current Memorandum of Understanding and as permitted by Government Code § 3500 et seq. Departmental Directives will immediately modify or change and supersede sections of this manual to which they pertain. 201.1.1 DEPARTMENTAL DIRECTIVE PROTOCOL Departmental Directives will be incorporated into the manual as required upon approval of Staff. Departmental Directives will modify existing policies or create a new policy as appropriate and will be rescinded upon incorporation into the manual. All existing Departmental Directives have now been incorporated in the updated Policy Manual as of the below revision date. Any Departmental Directives issued after publication of the manual shall be numbered consecutively starting with the last two digits of the year, followed by the number 01. For example, 12-01 signifies the first Departmental Directive for the year 2012. 201.2 RESPONSIBILITIES 201.2.1 SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM The Senior Management Team shall review and recommend revisions of the Policy Manual, which will incorporate changes originally made by a Departmental Directive. 201.2.2 CHIEF OF POLICE The Chief of Police shall issue all Departmental Directives. 201.3 ACCEPTANCE OF DEPARTMENTAL DIRECTIVES All employees are required to read and obtain any necessary clarification of all Departmental Directives. All employees are required to acknowledge in writing the receipt and review of any new Departmental Directive. Signed acknowledgement forms and/or e-mail receipts showing an employee’s acknowledgement will be maintained by the Training Commander.