Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
1.1 Law Enforcement Role and Authority: Law Enforcement Agency Role
1.1.7 Public Safe ty Employee Code of Ethics (Non -sworn) (Issued: 2/22/08)
All UCSF Police Department non -sworn employees are also required to read, understand, sign
and uphold the Department’s Public Safety Employee Code of Ethics declaration. The Code of
Ethics will usually be presented, read and signed during the orientation week(s) for each
employee. In addition, all department personnel will attend an ethics tra ining biennially. The
Public Safety Employee’s Code of Ethics reads:
“As an employee in the field of public safety, I regard myself as a member of an
important and honorable profession .
I will recognize the positive relationship between good physical and mental
conditioning and the performance of my job.
I will perform my duty with efficiency to the best of my ability.
My conduct and my performance of my duties will be accomplished in an honest
manner, contributory to my fellow workers, and in compliance with the rules and
regulations of the University, laws of the city, state and country.
I will not, in the performance of my duty, work for unethical advantage or profit.
I will recognize at all times in my duty that I am a public safety em ployee, and
that ultimately I am responsible to the public.
I will give the most efficient and impartial service of which I am capable at all
times.
I understand the importance of courtesy and will maintain it as my reference
point in all my duties.
I will regard my fellow employees with the same standards as I maintain myself.
I share a reciprocal affinity and obligation with my fellow employees, my
administration, and my agency.
I will accept responsibility for my actions.
I will strive for those v alues which will reflect honor on my fellow employees, my
agency and myself.”