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WATERLOO POLICE DEPARTMENT MANUAL
Table of Contents
Vision, Mission, Core Values, & Guiding Principles
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1) DEPARTMENT RULES & REGULATIONS
2) OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES
ADMINISTRATION
1. Written Directive System
2. Citizen Complaints
3. Personal Conduct and Disciplinary Standards
4. Commendations
5. Personnel Assignments
6. Use of Force
6a. Use of Force OLD
7. Officer Involved Critical Incidents
8. Trade Time
9. Certificates of Training
10. Travel Policy/Use of Department Issued Credit Cards
11. Department Honor Guard
12. Shooting Review Board
13. Dissemination of Public Records--Police and Media Relations During Crisis/High Risk Incidents
14. Off-Duty Employment
15. Performance Evaluations
16. Mandatory Notifications
17. Domestic Violence
18. School Resource Officers
19. Department Relationships
20. Temporary Assignment of Alternative Productive Work
21. Destruction of Public Records
22. Ride-a-long
23. Social Media Policy
24. Grant Funded Positions and Guidelines
25. Network Security Policy
26. Community/Relational Policing
27. Ward/Beat Integrity
28. Training Center & Firearms Range
OPERATIONS
1. Outside Agency Request for Assistance
2. Meals and Breaks
3. Empty
4. Safe Operation of Police Vehicles
5. Property and Evidence
6. Alarm Response
7. Confidential Informants
8. Removal of Vehicles
9 .Motorcycle Units, Operations and Duty Specific Requirements
10. Investigation of Criminal Offense Cases/Destruction of Field Notes
11. In-Car Video & Body Worn Cameras
12. Racial Profiling/Biased Free Policing
13. Arrest by Officers of the Waterloo Police Department
14. Patrol Deployment Basics
15. Directed Patrol
16. Search Warrants
17. Citations in Lieu of Arrest
18. High Risk Incidents
19. Training Center/Outdoor Firearms Range
20. Field Training/Evaluation Program
21. Crime Scene Investigator and Crime Lab Investigator Utilization Procedures
22. Waterloo Police Reserve Unit
23. Bomb and Hazardous Device Incidents
24. Hazardous Substances/Clandestine Laboratories
25. Airborne Pathogens/Communicable Diseases
26. Canine Unit Operations
27. Specialized Travel/Training
28. Seized and Forfeitable Vehicles, Large Items, and Flammable Liquids
29. Citizen Alerts / Public Notifications - Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4
30. Department Interactions with LGBTQIA+
31. Prisoner-Inmate Transports
32 .Deployment of Department Issue Patrol Rifle
33. Engaging Persons: City Facilities and Public Meetings
34. Unmanned Aircraft Systems
35. Vehicle Impound Inventory
36. Polygraph
37. Use of the Temporary Holding Cell
38. Behavioral Crisis Intervention
RECORDS AND COMMUNICATIONS
1. CJI, Records, and Communications
2. (Reserved)
3. Runaways, Missing Persons and Attempt to Locate
4. (Reserved)
5. (Reserved)
6. (Reserved)
7. Arrest Warrants
8. (Reserved)
9. Intelligence Information/Memos
10. Written or Typed Statements
11. (Reserved)
12. (Reserved)
13. (Reserved)
14. (Reserved)
15. Incident File - Entry/Retention/Deletion/Archival
16. Calls for Service Data - Retention/Deletion/Archival
17. (Reserved)
18. Use of the I.O.W.A./N.C.I.C. Telecommunication System
UNIFORMS, EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES
1. Clothing and Accessories - Uniformed Officers
2. Clothing and Accessories - Non-Uniformed Employees
3. Firearms and Ammunitions
4. Clothing and Accessories - Authorized Issue/Replacement
5. Authorized Batons
LEGAL
1. (Reserved)