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Chief of Police FAX (781) 863-1291
Police Manual Policy Committee
Meeting Minutes —May 24, 2011
Time 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Location. Lexington Police Guard Room
In Attendance Chief Mark Corr(Chair) Peter Kelley Selectman Liaison
William Hays Captain Joseph O'Leary
Gerald McLeod Sgt. Paul Callahan
1 Meeting called at 4.00 p.m.
2. Minutes for April 19 2011 approved unanimously with one spelling correction.
3 Open Comments. Does LPD firearms training include safely handling firearms? I es.
All training incorporates training on proper handling and shooting of firearms.
4 Policy Review
61 Traffic Safety
Page 1 include reference to MPI resource.
Page 1 Reference to engineering is Town or State, or both.
Page 2. A.1.d. Rework sentence for clarity
Page 3 2.d. Selective enforcement against the group of drivers who are
responsible for the majority of the violations is really intended to target the
behaviors. Rework sentence.
Page 3 2. f. Evaluation of enforcement action is unclear how this will be evaluated.
Should not create a process that is not done.
Page 4. 3.c. Selection of suitable location for a traffic stop should add language.
M\ stop should not unnecessarily impeded traffic and officer should be empowered
to ask motorist to move to another location if need be.
Page 4. 3.f. Should officers consider reducing forward facing lights, after the My
stop is under control, to reduce the visual impediment to oncoming traffic?
Page 10, ii & iii. Fix errors in sentence grammar and structure.
Page 11, e. iv Blood Alcohol test guidelines should be spelled out in policy
Page 12, 2.a. Include in policy legal standard for issuance of citation be it
preponderance of evidence or the Chapter 90 reasonable grounds to believe.
Page 13, g. i. & ii. Not very clear what an unsafe behavior or unsafe condition
means.
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Page 14, 4.b Bicycles. Appears to be missing words in paragraph.
Page 15 D 1 Spell out LIDAR.
Page 17 top of page. Correct the language in parenthesis.
Page 17 2. Item a. speaks of bad driving behavior and then b. onward seems to
focus only on aggressive driving. Shouldn t aggressive driving just be one of the
subsets of other bad driving behaviors.
Page 18. ALL of Section H is already address in Policy 63A and should be removed
in its entirety
Page 19 given prior continent, item 4 a.iv should address alleviating congestion at
school events.
Page 25 Abandoned Motor chides. This should be in the Towing policy not
here.
General discussion of using ideo in police cruisers, advantages versus
disadvantage.
General discussion of using GPS in cruisers.
63A Traffic Direction and Control
Page 1, cites to MPI policy
Page 4, item D What is origin of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for
Streets and Highways.
Page 5 clarify items A. B and C A encourages officers to take control of traffic
when special circumstances warrant. B. cites Chiefs authorization to post officers
where needed. C addresses advantage of using traffic control signals —but should
include necessity of officer to override control.
-13A Vice, Drugs and Organized Crime
Page 1 Opening paragraph leads readers to believe that most of the confidential
informants are themselves questionable in character This is misleading. It is
'sometimes necessary to assign police officers as undercover
Page 1 Add Policy number to informant policy
Page 1, second paragraph. Avoid speak of specialists.
Page 1, second paragraph. 'Converts criminal data is an odd phrase.
Page 1 Whole opening you be more Lexington specific.
Page 2. Grammar correction.
Page 6, b lo be considered for this assignment and the additional training, a police
officer must possess the traits, characteristics and aptitude, including the following:
Page 6 bottom into 7 Bad formatting.
Page 7 b.ii. Emphasize ideo surveillance versus audio.
Page 8, iv at top of page. Explain why agents should be rotated back to other
assignments.
Page 9 iv There needs to be language that emphasizes attorney—client privilege
prevails.
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-45B Citizen Survey
Should this be apart of policy lA on Goals and Missions? PD should decide.
Page 2. A.2. 3-5 year window should be revised.
Page 2. A.3 Simplify sentence. Chief may decide at any point to survey the
community for feedback.
Page 2. B.1.b Reword for clarity
Page 3 top paragraph. Delete.
Page 3 C Reword entire section for clarity Open up for collaboration with any
available.appropriate research organization.
61A Traffic Administration and Management
Page 1 Include cites to MPI policy
Significant overlap with other Traffic policies. Eliminate duplicity
Page 2. II. Overlap with 63A. page 2
Page 3 III. A. Overlap with 63A.
Page 3 Iv overlap with 63A.
6K' Towing Motor Vehicles and Inventory Procedures
Page 1. Include cites to MPI policy
Page 4. 1 a. Spell out pda.
Page 4. F extremely poor should be changed to the legal standard otherwise fails
to pass inspection.
Page 6. Add all night parking regulations
Page 6. Change bylaw to the numeric system presently used.
Page 7 Change bylaw to the numeric system.
Page 7 B. Authorization for Commanding Officer to tow and hold is very broad.
Add some guidance and criteria.
Page 8. C 1 Expand language on Denver Boot.
Page 10 is blank?
5 73B Prosecution and 73C Legal Process Handling tabled until the next meeting.
6 Next meeting is scheduled for July 12. 4.00 p.m. Captain O'Leary to secure parking due
to Farmer s Market to the rear of the police station.
7 Adjourn at 6 10 p.m.
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