Common use of Community Relationships Clause in Contracts

Community Relationships. A. To further enhance the relationship between the MCPD and county residents, the FOP and MCPD agree to engage in a cooperative program of community outreach to explain the duties and responsibilities of police officers, the dangers of the job, the reasons behind practices designed to promote officer safety (but which might be misunderstood by the public), and other issues involving traffic stops, arrests, searches and seizures, and the methods a person has available to acknowledge the good work of an officer or to file a complaint. B. MCPD agrees to continue its outreach already in place that provides pamphlets describing the complaint process and provides forms for complaints in English and Spanish and other languages as may be appropriate. C. The MCPD shall continue to require officers to provide their name and an explanation of the reason for the traffic stop at the beginning of each traffic stop, unless, based on the specific circumstances of an individual traffic stop, providing this information would compromise officer safety. D. MCPD will continue to require that all officers acting in an official capacity provide their name and police identification number when requested by someone who is not a police officer. MCPD and FOP will use positive reinforcement to promote such conduct, but recognize that when an officer has not responded to positive reinforcement initiatives and has violated this requirement, discipline may be appropriate so long as it complies with the Collective Bargaining Agreement and the LEOBR. MCPD officers may use business cards to identify themselves to people who indicate an interest in contacting the officer, submitting a compliment, or filing a complaint. MCPD and FOP shall work together to ensure that officers do not discourage people from filing complaints. E. MCPD and the FOP shall work together to develop surveys to better understand whether MCPD is continuing to meet the needs and concerns of the people of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County. F. The MCPD shall prepare semi-annual public reports that include statistical and summary information on complaint investigations, MCPD traffic activities, and commendations and compliments received by officers. The information regarding investigations shall include the number of external, internal, and total complaints received and sustained, by category of allegations and by the race/ethnicity of the complainant. The reports regarding MCPD traffic activities shall include, by race and ethnicity, the number of traffic stops and the number of actions taken in connection with such stops (including summonses, warnings, requests for consent to search, consent searches, nonconsensual searches, and arrests).

Community Relationships. A. To further enhance the relationship between the MCPD and county residents, the FOP and MCPD agree to engage in a cooperative program of community outreach to explain the duties and responsibilities of police officers, the dangers of the job, the reasons behind practices designed to promote officer safety (but which might be misunderstood by the public), and other issues involving traffic stops, arrests, searches and seizures, and the methods a person has available to acknowledge the good work of an officer or to file a complaint. B. MCPD agrees to continue its outreach already in place that provides pamphlets describing the complaint process and provides forms for complaints in English and Spanish and other languages as may be appropriate. C. The MCPD shall continue to require officers to provide their name and an explanation of the reason for the traffic stop at the beginning of each traffic stop, unless, based on the specific circumstances of an individual traffic stop, providing this information would compromise officer safety. D. MCPD will continue to require that all officers acting in an official capacity provide their name and police identification number when requested by someone who is not a police officer. MCPD and FOP will use positive reinforcement to promote such conduct, but recognize that when an officer has not responded to positive reinforcement initiatives and has violated this requirement, discipline may be appropriate so long as it complies with the Collective Bargaining Agreement and the LEOBR. MCPD officers may use business cards to identify themselves to people who indicate an interest in contacting the officer, submitting a compliment, or filing a complaint. MCPD and FOP shall work together to ensure that officers do not discourage people from filing complaints. E. MCPD and the FOP shall work together to develop surveys to better understand whether MCPD is continuing to meet the needs and concerns of the people of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Montgomery County. F. The MCPD shall prepare semi-annual public reports that include statistical and summary information on complaint investigations, MCPD traffic activities, and commendations and compliments received by officers. The information regarding investigations shall include the number of external, internal, and total complaints received and sustained, by category of allegations and by the race/ethnicity of the complainant. The reports regarding MCPD traffic activities shall include, by race and ethnicity, the number of traffic stops and the number of actions taken in connection with such stops (including summonses, warnings, requests for consent to search, consent searches, nonconsensual searches, and arrests).

Community Relationships. A. To further enhance the relationship between the MCPD and county residents, the FOP and MCPD agree to engage in a cooperative program of community outreach to explain the duties and responsibilities of police officers, the dangers of the job, the reasons behind practices designed to promote officer safety (but which might be misunderstood by the public), and other issues involving traffic stops, arrests, searches and seizures, and the methods a person has available to acknowledge the good work of an officer or to file a complaint. B. MCPD ▇. ▇▇▇▇ agrees to continue its outreach already in place that provides pamphlets describing the complaint process and provides forms for complaints in English and Spanish and other languages as may be appropriate. C. The MCPD shall continue to require officers to provide their name and an explanation of the reason for the traffic stop at the beginning of each traffic stop, unless, based on the specific circumstances of an individual traffic stop, providing this information would compromise officer safety. D. MCPD ▇. ▇▇▇▇ will continue to require that all officers acting in an official capacity provide their name and police identification number when requested by someone who is not a police officer. MCPD and FOP will use positive reinforcement to promote such conduct, but recognize that when an officer has not responded to positive reinforcement initiatives and has violated this requirement, discipline may be appropriate so long as it complies with the Collective Bargaining Agreement and the LEOBR. MCPD officers may use business cards to identify themselves to people who indicate an interest in contacting the officer, submitting a compliment, or filing a complaint. MCPD and FOP shall work together to ensure that officers do not discourage people from filing complaints. E. MCPD ▇. ▇▇▇▇ and the FOP shall work together to develop surveys to better understand whether MCPD is continuing to meet the needs and concerns of the people of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County. F. The MCPD shall prepare semi-annual public reports that include statistical and summary information on complaint investigations, MCPD traffic activities, and commendations and compliments received by officers. The information regarding investigations shall include the number of external, internal, and total complaints received and sustained, by category of allegations and by the race/ethnicity of the complainant. The reports regarding MCPD traffic activities shall include, by race and ethnicity, the number of traffic stops and the number of actions taken in connection with such stops (including summonses, warnings, requests for consent to search, consent searches, nonconsensual searches, and arrests).