PURPOSE OF ORDER
To establish guidelines for the creation, retention and distribution of the weekly assaults with firearms reports.
SCOPE OF ORDER
ALL Bureau supervisors.
BACKGROUND
The Bureau began distributing the Weekly Gang-Related Assaults with Firearms Reports in 2003, to share information between Bureau investigators and surrounding law enforcement agencies. The relevance of the report now serves as an information source for not only gang investigators, but also for Unit Commanders and Department Executives to help determine deployment and resource allocation strategies.
ORDER
Each station OSS Bureau team will create, input and distribute, a Gang-Related Assaults with Firearms Report by 1000 hours each Monday, for incidents occurring during the previous week. The report should also be sent to surrounding law enforcement agencies gang investigation units.
In preparation for the weekly report, a LARCIS query shall be performed for all reports utilizing 011, 051,153, and 055 stat codes from each station. The OSS team supervisor shall determine whether the generated reports were gang-related, pursuant to Field Operations Directive 00-10, and ensure that the 860 statistical code was properly applied and entered into LARCIS. Any gang-related assault with a firearm or murder will be entered into the OSS Assault Report Database in one of three categories:
1 - Murder : Any gang-related murder.
2 - Assault : Any gang-related assault with a firearm (245(a)2 P.C.).
3 - Other : Any other gang-related assault with a firearm or any gang –related assault upon a peace officer
At the conclusion of each weekly report is a fourth category titled, “Analysis and Other Information.” This field shall be used for other non gang-related incidents, and a weekly analysis of gang activity and intelligence for each station.