Watch Commanders and Supervising Lieutenants are required to make immediate verbal notification to the on-call IAB Lieutenant whenever any of the following occur:
All incidents in which Department members are shot;
All shootings by any Department member, both on-duty and off-duty, including unintentional discharges, warning shots, and shooting at animals;
Hospitalizations due to injuries caused by any Department member;
Skeletal fractures caused by any Department member;
Category 2 or 3 Force used by any Department member during or following a vehicular or foot pursuit;
All large party situations where Category 2 or 3 Force is used;
Injury or complaint of injury to a person's face, head, or neck area resulting in medical evaluation and/or treatment following contact with any Department member (this does not apply to contamination due to Oleoresin Capsicum spray, Freeze +P, or Deep Freeze aerosols, or PepperBall projectile powder);
All face, head, or neck strikes with an impact weapon or other object;
All face, head, or neck strikes with hands or fists;
Force resulting in serious bodily injury;
Kick(s) to a subject’s face, head, or neck;
Knee strike(s) to a subject’s face, head, or neck;
Any situation wherein a Department member pushes, shoves, takes down, or otherwise causes a person to hit their head against a hard object (e.g., roadway, driveway, concrete floor, wall, door jamb, jail bars, etc.);
Canine bites resulting in medical treatment;
Any use of improvised weapons or techniques;
Any death following a contact with any Department member;
All inmate deaths;
Any of the above use of force witnessed by a Department member applied by personnel from another law enforcement agency involved in an operation with Department personnel; or
At any scene where the Sheriff’s Response Team (SRT) is deployed.
The on-call IAB Lieutenant shall evaluate the information and determine if an IAB Force/ Shooting Response Team activation is required. The on-call Lieutenant shall also determine the appropriate make-up of each team and will cause the notification of those personnel.
The following types of incidents shall require mandatory activation of an IAB Force/ Shooting Response Team by the on-call IAB Lieutenant:
Inmate deaths from other than obvious natural causes, including murders, suicides, overdoses, or accidents, and the following Category 3 Force:
All shootings in which a shot was intentionally fired at a person by a Department member;
Any type of shooting by a Department member which results in a person being hit,
Force resulting in admission to a hospital;
Any death following a use of force by any Department member;
All face, head, or neck strikes with an impact weapon or other object;
All face, head, or neck strikes with hands or fists;
Kicks or knee strikes to a subject's face, head, or neck;
Striking a subject’s face, head, or neck against a hard, fixed object; or
Skeletal fractures caused by a Department member.
Any improvised weapons or techniques.
NOTE: Carotid restraint and choke holds are not authorized. However, any use of force to a suspect’s neck or throat shall be a mandatory IAB rollout, regardless of the level of injury incurred by the suspect.
The IAB Force/Shooting Response Team shall prepare an administrative review of each incident, which shall be submitted to the Executive Force Review Committee, with an additional level of independent oversight. The captain of Internal Affairs Bureau is responsible for establishing an incident file containing the IAB Force/Shooting Response Team's reports and for ensuring that they are entered into the Performance Recording and Monitoring System (PRMS).
If at any time the response team IAB lieutenant determines that an administrative investigation is warranted, he or she shall brief the concerned unit commander and, with the concurrence of the concerned division chief or division director, shall direct the IAB investigators to commence an investigation. If IAB determines that the conduct of any Department member may have been criminal in nature, the IAB Force/Shooting Response Team lieutenant shall immediately notify the concerned unit commander and, with concurrence of the concerned division chief or division director, turn the investigation over to the Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau (ICIB).