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    • Title 1 - Department Administration
      • 1.010 - Authority and Jurisdiction
      • 1.020 - Chain of Command
      • 1.040 - Budget
      • 1.050 - Grants
      • 1.060 - Management of Contracts
      • 1.070 - Training
      • 1.075 - Failure to Complete Required Training
      • 1.080 - Inspection and Audits
      • 1.090 - Ticket Chain of Custody
      • 1.100 - Ticket Audits
      • 1.110 - Public Information
      • 1.112 - Responding to Requests from Elected Officials
      • 1.115 - Media Release: Officer-Involved Shooting
      • 1.120 - Performance Review Entities and Processes
    • Title 2 - Department Employment
      • 2.020 - Appointments & Probation
      • 2.030 - Retirements & Separations
      • 2.050 - Collective Bargaining & Contract Management
      • 2.060 - Grievances
      • 2.070 - Performance Evaluation
    • Title 3 - Employee Welfare
      • 3.035 - Reasonable Accommodation (ADA)
      • 3.040 - Airborne Pathogens Control
      • 3.045 - Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control
      • 3.050 - Coordinating Officer Fatalities
      • 3.070 - Early Intervention System
      • 3.080 - Travel Training System
      • 3.090 - Employee Recognition Awards Program
      • 3.170 - Honoring Those Killed in the Line of Duty
      • 3.290 - Pre-Service/In-Service and Specialized Training
      • 3.330 - Workplace Safety
      • 3.335 - Hazard Notification and Training Standards
      • 3.340 - Employee Involvement Committees & JLMC
    • Title 4 - Human Resources
      • 4.000 - Employee Move Tracking System (EMT)
      • 4.005 - Police Employee Data System (PEDS)
      • 4.010 - Employee Time Off
      • 4.015 - Restricted Time Off for a Pre-Planned Event
      • 4.020 - Reporting and Recording Overtime/Out of Classification Pay
      • 4.030 - Jury Duty
      • 4.040 - Sick Leave
      • 4.050 - On-Duty Illness or Injury
      • 4.060 - Long Term Disability Benefits
      • 4.070 - Limited Duty Assignments
      • 4.080 - Pregnancy
      • 4.090 - Leave of Absence Without Pay
      • 4.100 – Family and Medical Leave
      • 4.110 - Sick Leave Donation
      • 4.120 - Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Leave
      • 4.130 - Military Leave
      • 4.140 - Military Spouse/Domestic Partner Leave
      • 4.150 - Funeral Leave
    • Title 5 - Employee Conduct
      • 5.001 - Standards and Duties
      • 5.002 - Responsibilities of Employees Concerning Alleged Policy Violations
      • 5.003 - Front Line Investigations
      • 5.010 - Civil Actions
      • 5.020 - Gifts and Gratuities
      • 5.030 - Preparing for Criminal Case Interviews
      • 5.040 - EEO Complaints and Investigations
      • 5.060 - Employee Political Activity
      • 5.090 - Operations Bureau General Personnel Matters
      • 5.100 - Operations Bureau Individual Responsibilities
      • 5.120 - Off-Duty Employment
      • 5.125 - Social Media
      • 5.130 - Supervisor/Employee Relationships
      • 5.140 - Bias-Free Policing
      • 5.150 - Use of Private Vehicles for City Business
      • 5.160 - Observation of Officers
      • 5.170 - Alcohol and Substance Use
      • 5.175 - Critical Incident Stress Management Communications
      • 5.180 - Carrying Weapons Into King County Superior Court
      • 5.190 - Court Appearances and Legal Proceedings
      • 5.210-Law Enforcement Flying Armed
    • Title 6 - Arrests, Search and Seizure
      • 6.010 - Arrests
      • 6.020 - Interactions with Foreign Nationals
      • 6.030 - Body Cavity Searches
      • 6.060 - Collection of Information for Law Enforcement Purposes
      • 6.120 - Impounding Vehicles
      • 6.130 - Informant Management
      • 6.135 - Cooperating Witnesses
      • 6.140 - Locating a Cell Phone during an Emergency
      • 6.150 - Advising Persons of Right to Counsel and Miranda
      • 6.180 - Searches-General
      • 6.181 - Performing Inventory Searches
      • 6.185 - Search Warrants
      • 6.210 - Strip Searches
      • 6.220 - Voluntary Contacts, Terry Stops & Detentions
      • 6.250 - Use of Non-SPD Canines
      • 6.280 - Warrant Arrests
      • 6.290 - Juvenile Investigations and Arrests
    • Title 7 - Evidence and Property
      • 7.010 - Submitting Evidence
      • 7.020 - Found Property
      • 7.030 - Firearms, Ammunition & Shell Casings
      • 7.040 - Dangerous or Hazardous Evidence
      • 7.050 - Checking Out Evidence for Court
      • 7.060 - Releasing Evidence
      • 7.070 - Converting Evidence for Department Use
      • 7.080 - Money Evidence
      • 7.090 - Photographic Evidence
      • 7.100 - Fingerprint Evidence
      • 7.110 - Recorded Statements
      • 7.120 - Narcotics Evidence
      • 7.130 – Narcotics Training Aid and Investigative Use Drug Property Release
      • 7.140 – Firearm Training Aid and Investigative Use
      • 7.150 - Non-Detainee Property for Safekeeping
    • Title 8 - Use of Force
      • 8.000 - Use of Force Core Principles
      • 8.050 - Use of Force Definitions
      • 8.100 - De-Escalation
      • 8.200 - Using Force
      • 8.300 - Use of Force Tools
      • 8.310 - OC Spray Chain of Custody
      • 8.400 - Use of Force Reporting and Investigation
      • 8.500 - Reviewing Use of Force
    • Title 9 - Equipment and Uniforms
      • 9.010 - Employee Dress Standards
      • 9.020 - Uniform
      • 9.030 - Equipment
      • 9.040 - Uniform and Equipment Committee
      • 9.050 - Clothing Allowance and Reimbursement for Personal Property
      • 9.060 - Firearms
      • 9.065 - Firearms Training and Qualification
      • 9.100 - Department Firearms Management
    • Title 10 - Police Facilities & Security
      • 10.010 - Parking at Department Facilities
      • 10.020 - Physical Security of Police Facilities
      • 10.060 - Holding Cell and Security Video
    • Title 11 - Detainee Management
      • 11.010 - Detainee Management
      • 11.020 - Transportation of Detainees
      • 11.030 – Guarding Detainees at a Hospital
      • 11.040 – Booking Adult Detainees into a Detention Facility
      • 11.050 - Detainee Property
    • Title 12 - Department Information Systems
      • 12.010 - Communications
      • 12.040 - Department-Owned Computers, Devices & Software
      • 12.050 - Criminal Justice Information Systems
      • 12.055 - Criminal Justice Research
      • 12.060 - Department Forms Control
      • 12.070 - Department Publications
      • 12.080 - Disclosure of Department Records
      • 12.090 - Departmental Correspondence
      • 12.110 - Use of Department E-mail & Internet Systems
      • 12.111 - Use of Cloud Storage Services
    • Title 13 - Vehicle Operations
      • 13.010 - Collisions Involving Department Vehicles
      • 13.015 - Collision Review Board
      • 13.030 - Emergency Vehicle Operations
      • 13.031 - Vehicle Eluding/Pursuits
      • 13.040 - Patrol Operations Equipment, Police Vehicles and Facilities
      • 13.050 - Policing by Mountain Bike
      • 13.060 - Specialty Vehicles & Equipment
      • 13.080 - Use of Department Vehicles
    • Title 14 - Emergency Operations
      • 14.001-Mobilization Alert and Gold/Blue Deployment Plan
      • 14.010 - After-Action Reports
      • 14.020 - Notification Protocols-AlertSeattle
      • 14.040 - Hazardous Conditions
      • 14.060 - Serious Incident Plan
      • 14.070 - Serious Injury or Fatality to Officer
      • 14.080 - Task Force Mobilization
      • 14.090 - Crowd Management
      • 14.100 - Special Event Planning
    • Title 15 - Primary Investigation
      • 15.010 - Arson Investigations
      • 15.015 - Bomb Threats & Explosive Devices
      • 15.020 - Charge-By-Officer (CBO)
      • 15.055 - Death Investigation
      • 15.080 - Follow up Unit Notification & Follow up Investigation
      • 15.090 - Investigating Graffiti Incidents
      • 15.100 - Kidnapping
      • 15.110 - Investigating Custodial Interference
      • 15.120 – Responding to Bias Crimes and Incidents
      • 15.130 - Missing Persons
      • 15.140 - Narcotics Activity Report
      • 15.150 - Narcotics
      • 15.160 - Marijuana Enforcement
      • 15.170 - Conducting Identification Procedures
      • 15.180 - Primary Investigations
      • 15.185 - Vulnerable Adults-Elder Abuse & Neglect
      • 15.190 - Auto Theft and Recovery
      • 15.200 - Retail Theft Program
      • 15.210 - Investigating Property Held by a Pawnshop or Used-Goods Store
      • 15.215 - Seizing and Releasing Firearms
      • 15.220 - Child Welfare
      • 15.230 - Animal Control
      • 15.240 - Boating Accidents
      • 15.250 - Interpreters/Translators
      • 15.260 - Collision Investigations
      • 15.265 - SR 99 Bore Tunnel Response
      • 15.270 - Trespass Warning Program
      • 15.275 - Enforcing Trespass in Parks
      • 15.280 - DUI Investigations
      • 15.290 - Stay Out of Areas of Prostitution (SOAP)
      • 15.300 - Stay out of Drug Areas (SODA)-Defined Boundaries
      • 15.320 - Police Action on Military Property
      • 15.330 - Responding to Threats & Assaults on Officers
      • 15.340 - Robbery Response
      • 15.350 - Significant Incident Reports (SIR)
      • 15.360 - Use of Mobile Fingerprint Identification Devices (Mobile IDs)
      • 15.370 - Sexual Assault Investigation
      • 15.380 - SECTOR
      • 15.390 - Domestic Violence Incidents Involving Department Employees
      • 15.400-Domestic Violence Court Orders
      • 15.405 - Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO)
      • 15.410 - Domestic Violence Investigation
      • 15.415 - Prostitution Investigations
    • Title 16 - Patrol Operations
      • 16.020 - Alley Closure
      • 16.030 - Citizen Rider Program
      • 16.040 - Community Police Teams
      • 16.050 - Death Notifications
      • 16.060 - King County Sheriff's Office Air Support Unit
      • 16.070 - Responding to Monitored Alarms
      • 16.080 - Fireworks Disposal and Disposition
      • 16.090 - In-Car and Body-Worn Video
      • 16.100 - Patrol Training and Publications
      • 16.110 - Crisis Intervention
      • 16.130 - Providing Medical Aid
      • 16.135 - Excited Delirium
      • 16.140 - Traffic Direction and Control
      • 16.150 - Snow and Ice Plan
      • 16.160 - Ticket Vendors
      • 16.170 - Automatic License Plate Readers
      • 16.180 - Patrol Operations Order
      • 16.190 - Labor Management Disputes
      • 16.200 - Interaction with Transgender Individuals
      • 16.230 - Issuing Tickets and Traffic Contact Reports
      • 16.231 - Cancelling and Voiding Tickets
      • 16.240 - Mutual Assistance
      • 16.250 - Interaction with the University of Washington Police Department
      • 16.300 - Patrol Canines
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Title 10 - Police Facilities & Security

  • 10.010 - Parking at Department Facilities
  • 10.020 - Physical Security of Police Facilities
  • 10.060 - Holding Cell and Security Video
  • General Policy Information
    • Preface
    • About and Contact
    • Code of Ethics
    • Mission Statement and Priorities
  • Interim Policies
  • Title 1 - Department Administration
    • 1.010 - Authority and Jurisdiction
    • 1.020 - Chain of Command
    • 1.040 - Budget
    • 1.050 - Grants
    • 1.060 - Management of Contracts
    • 1.070 - Training
    • 1.075 - Failure to Complete Required Training
    • 1.080 - Inspection and Audits
    • 1.090 - Ticket Chain of Custody
    • 1.100 - Ticket Audits
    • 1.110 - Public Information
    • 1.112 - Responding to Requests from Elected Officials
    • 1.115 - Media Release: Officer-Involved Shooting
    • 1.120 - Performance Review Entities and Processes
  • Title 2 - Department Employment
    • 2.020 - Appointments & Probation
    • 2.030 - Retirements & Separations
    • 2.050 - Collective Bargaining & Contract Management
    • 2.060 - Grievances
    • 2.070 - Performance Evaluation
  • Title 3 - Employee Welfare
    • 3.035 - Reasonable Accommodation (ADA)
    • 3.040 - Airborne Pathogens Control
    • 3.045 - Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control
    • 3.050 - Coordinating Officer Fatalities
    • 3.070 - Early Intervention System
    • 3.080 - Travel Training System
    • 3.090 - Employee Recognition Awards Program
    • 3.170 - Honoring Those Killed in the Line of Duty
    • 3.290 - Pre-Service/In-Service and Specialized Training
    • 3.330 - Workplace Safety
    • 3.335 - Hazard Notification and Training Standards
    • 3.340 - Employee Involvement Committees and JLMC
  • Title 4 - Human Resources
    • 4.000 - Employee Move Tracking System (EMT)
    • 4.005 - Police Employee Data System (PEDS)
    • 4.010 - Employee Time Off
    • 4.015 - Restricted Time Off for a Pre-Planned Event
    • 4.020 - Reporting and Recording Overtime/Out of Classification Pay
    • 4.030 - Jury Duty
    • 4.040 - Sick Leave
    • 4.050 - On-Duty Illness or Injury
    • 4.060 - Long Term Disability Benefits
    • 4.070 - Limited Duty Assignments
    • 4.080 - Pregnancy
    • 4.090 - Leave of Absence Without Pay
    • 4.100 - Family and Medical Leave
    • 4.110 - Sick Leave Donation
    • 4.120 - Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Leave
    • 4.130 - Military Leave
    • 4.140 - Military Spouse/Domestic Partner Leave
    • 4.150 - Funeral Leave
  • Title 5 - Employee Conduct
    • 5.001 - Standards and Duties
    • 5.002 - Responsibilities of Employees Concerning Alleged Policy Violations
    • 5.003 - Front Line Investigations
    • 5.010 - Civil Actions
    • 5.020 - Gifts and Gratuities
    • 5.030 - Preparing for Criminal Case Interviews
    • 5.040 - EEO Complaints and Investigations
    • 5.060 - Employee Political Activity
    • 5.090 - Operations Bureau General Personnel Matters
    • 5.100 - Operations Bureau Individual Responsibilities
    • 5.120 - Off-Duty Employment
    • 5.125 - Social Media
    • 5.130 - Supervisor/Employee Relationships
    • 5.140 - Bias-Free Policing
    • 5.150 - Use of Private Vehicles for City Business
    • 5.160 - Observation of Officers
    • 5.170 - Alcohol and Substance Use
    • 5.175 - Critical Incident Stress Management Communications
    • 5.180 - Carrying Weapons Into King County Superior Court
    • 5.190 - Court Appearances and Legal Proceedings
    • 5.210 - Law Enforcement Officers Flying Armed
  • Title 6 - Arrests, Search and Seizure
    • 6.010 - Arrests
    • 6.020 - Interactions with Foreign Nationals
    • 6.030 - Body Cavity Searches
    • 6.060 - Collection of Information for Law Enforcement Purposes
    • 6.120 - Impounding Vehicles
    • 6.130 - Informant Management
    • 6.135 - Cooperating Witnesses
    • 6.140 - Locating a Cell Phone during an Emergency
    • 6.150 - Advising Persons of Right to Counsel and Miranda
    • 6.180 - Searches-General
    • 6.181 - Performing Inventory Searches
    • 6.185 - Search Warrants
    • 6.210 - Strip Searches
    • 6.220 - Voluntary Contacts, Terry Stops & Detentions
    • 6.250 - Use of Non-SPD Canines
    • 6.280 - Warrant Arrests
    • 6.290 - Juvenile Investigations and Arrests
  • Title 7 - Evidence and Property
    • 7.010 - Submitting Evidence
    • 7.020 - Found Property
    • 7.030 - Firearms, Ammunition & Shell Casings
    • 7.040 - Dangerous or Hazardous Evidence
    • 7.050 - Checking Out Evidence for Court
    • 7.060 - Releasing Evidence
    • 7.070 - Converting Evidence for Department Use
    • 7.080 - Money Evidence
    • 7.090 - Photographic Evidence
    • 7.100 - Fingerprint Evidence
    • 7.110 - Recorded Statements
    • 7.120 - Narcotics Evidence
    • 7.130 – Narcotics Training Aid and Investigative Use Drug Property Release
    • 7.140 – Firearm Training Aid and Investigative Use
    • 7.150 - Non-Detainee Property for Safekeeping
  • Title 8 - Use of Force
    • 8.000 - Use of Force Core Principles
    • 8.050 - Use of Force Definitions
    • 8.100 - De-Escalation
    • 8.200 - Using Force
    • 8.300 - Use of Force Tools
    • 8.310 - OC Spray Chain of Custody
    • 8.400 - Use of Force Reporting and Investigation
    • 8.500 - Reviewing Use of Force
  • Title 9 - Equipment and Uniforms
    • 9.010 - Employee Dress Standards
    • 9.020 - Uniform
    • 9.030 - Equipment
    • 9.040 - Uniform and Equipment Committee
    • 9.050 - Clothing Allowance and Reimbursement for Personal Property
    • 9.060 - Firearms
    • 9.065 - Firearms Training and Qualification
    • 9.100 - Department Firearms Management
  • Title 10 - Police Facilities & Security
    • 10.010 - Parking at Department Facilities
    • 10.020 - Physical Security of Police Facilities
    • 10.060 - Holding Cell and Security Video
  • Title 11 - Detainee Management
    • 11.010 - Detainee Management
    • 11.020 - Transportation of Detainees
    • 11.030 – Guarding Detainees at a Hospital
    • 11.040 – Booking Adult Detainees into a Detention Facility
    • 11.050 - Detainee Property
  • Title 12 - Department Information Systems
    • 12.010 - Communications
    • 12.040 - Department-Owned Computers, Devices & Software
    • 12.050 - Criminal Justice Information Systems
    • 12.055 - Criminal Justice Research
    • 12.060 - Department Forms Control
    • 12.070 - Department Publications
    • 12.080 - Disclosure of Department Records
    • 12.090 - Departmental Correspondence
    • 12.110 - Use of Department E-mail & Internet Systems
    • 12.111 - Use of Cloud Storage Services
  • Title 13 - Vehicle Operations
    • 13.010 - Collisions Involving Department Vehicles
    • 13.015 - Collision Review Board
    • 13.030 - Emergency Vehicle Operations
    • 13.031 - Vehicle Eluding/Pursuits
    • 13.040 - Patrol Operations Equipment, Police Vehicles and Facilities
    • 13.050 - Policing by Mountain Bike
    • 13.060 - Specialty Vehicles & Equipment
    • 13.080 - Use of Department Vehicles
  • Title 14 - Emergency Operations
    • 14.001-Mobilization Alert and Gold/Blue Deployment Plan
    • 14.010 - After-Action Reports
    • 14.020 - Notification Protocols-AlertSeattle
    • 14.040 - Hazardous Conditions
    • 14.060 - Serious Incident Plan
    • 14.070 - Serious Injury or Fatality to Officer
    • 14.080 - Task Force Mobilization
    • 14.090 - Crowd Management
    • 14.100 - Special Event Planning
  • Title 15 - Primary Investigation
    • 15.010 - Arson Investigations
    • 15.015 - Bomb Threats & Explosive Devices
    • 15.020 - Charge-By-Officer (CBO)
    • 15.055 - Death Investigation
    • 15.080 - Follow up Unit Notification & Follow up Investigation
    • 15.090 - Investigating Graffiti Incidents
    • 15.100 - Kidnapping
    • 15.110 - Investigating Custodial Interference
    • 15.120 – Responding to Bias Crimes and Incidents
    • 15.130 - Missing Persons
    • 15.140 - Narcotics Activity Report
    • 15.150 - Narcotics
    • 15.160 - Marijuana Enforcement
    • 15.170 - Conducting Identification Procedures
    • 15.180 - Primary Investigations
    • 15.185 - Vulnerable Adults-Elder Abuse & Neglect
    • 15.190 - Auto Theft and Recovery
    • 15.200 - Retail Theft Program
    • 15.210 - Investigating Property Held by a Pawnshop or Used-Goods Store
    • 15.215 - Seizing and Releasing Firearms
    • 15.220 - Child Welfare
    • 15.230 - Animal Control
    • 15.240 - Boating Accidents
    • 15.250 - Interpreters/Translators
    • 15.260 - Collision Investigations
    • 15.265 - SR 99 Bore Tunnel Response
    • 15.270 - Trespass Warning Program
    • 15.275 - Enforcing Trespass in Parks
    • 15.280 - DUI Investigations
    • 15.290 - Stay Out of Areas of Prostitution (SOAP)
    • 15.300 - Stay Out of Drug Areas (SODA)-Defined Boundaries
    • 15.320 - Police Action on Military Property
    • 15.330 - Responding to Threats & Assaults on Officers
    • 15.340 - Robbery Response
    • 15.350 - Significant Incident Reports (SIR)
    • 15.360 - Use of Mobile Fingerprint Identification Devices
    • 15.370 - Sexual Assault Investigation
    • 15.380 - SECTOR
    • 15.390 - Domestic Violence Incidents Involving Department Employees
    • 15.400 - Domestic Violence Court Orders
    • 15.405 - Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO)
    • 15.410 - Domestic Violence Investigation
    • 15.415 - Prostitution Investigations
  • Title 16 - Patrol Operations
    • 16.020 - Alley Closure
    • 16.030 - Citizen Rider Program
    • 16.040 - Community Police Teams
    • 16.050 - Death Notifications
    • 16.060 - King County Sheriff's Office Air Support Unit
    • 16.070 - Responding to Monitored Alarms
    • 16.080 - Fireworks Disposal and Disposition
    • 16.090 - In-Car and Body-Worn Video
    • 16.100 - Patrol Training and Publications
    • 16.110 - Crisis Intervention
    • 16.130 - Providing Medical Aid
    • 16.135 - Excited Delirium
    • 16.140 - Traffic Direction and Control
    • 16.150 - Snow and Ice Plan
    • 16.160 - Ticket Vendors
    • 16.170 - Automatic License Plate Readers
    • 16.180 - Patrol Operations Order
    • 16.190 - Labor Management Disputes
    • 16.200 - Interaction with Transgender Individuals
    • 16.230 - Issuing Tickets and Traffic Contact Reports
    • 16.231 - Cancelling and Voiding Tickets
    • 16.240 - Mutual Assistance
    • 16.250 - Interaction with the University of Washington Police Department
    • 16.300 - Patrol Canines

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