Supervision, Accountability, and Coordination. BPD will ensure that supervisors at all levels receive supervisory or leadership training appropriate for their rank that provides them with the skills to implement reforms and promote community policing and problem-solving strategies. BPD will ensure that supervisors have tools to supervise officer activity, such as an effective and flexible early intervention system. BPD will implement policies and training to improve oversight for all officers and supervisors involved in the complaint intake, complaint investigation, or disciplinary process. It will ensure that policies provide guidance on how to properly classify complaints and ensure that there is oversight over the classification of complaints. BPD will take measures to be transparent about the complaints it receives, as well as its process for investigating complaints and disciplining officers for violations of policy, including considering publishing on its website the numbers of complaints it received in various categories of offenses, the number which were sustained, and an explanation of each step of the process for disciplining an officer from the time a complaint is received until discipline is implemented. BPD will strengthen its accountability measures, which may include audits, integrity checks, or using anonymous testers to assess whether officers are complying with policies. It will regularly audit samples of stops, searches, arrests, uses of force, and sexual assault investigations, use of force reports and incident reports to ensure that officers’ actions comply with constitutional standards. The City and BPD will work to improve their coordination with other law enforcement agencies with concurrent jurisdiction so that officers conducting joint enforcement activities have clear guidance regarding governing policies and chains of command, including the Baltimore School Police Force.
