Latest in a series of posts about the Bethlehem Police
Public Safety Committee meeting video here
President Waldron — the Council administrator — covered some nuts and bolts kinds of topics with (primarily) Deputy Meixell:
- the genesis and process of policy change
- the frequency of accreditor oversight (annually)
- ability to make immediate changes in policy at local level (yes)
- last major revision (approx 6 years ago)
- correlation between use of force and injury
- complaint system tracks claims of injury after arrest
- gun used in all instances of deadly force (yes)
- tasers
- tracking of mental health calls (needs improvement)
- officer compliance to reporting use of force (90+%)
- body camera policy (all official police action)