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Nogales council approves 357‑page police general orders to update department policies
Summary
After multi‑year work and legal review, the council unanimously approved implementation of updated general orders for the Nogales Police Department intended to modernize departmental procedures and ensure consistency with state and federal law.
The Nogales City Council voted unanimously on Aug. 6 to adopt a new set of police general orders — a 357‑page compilation of departmental policies intended to standardize procedures and ensure compliance with state and federal law.
Chief of Police Jimenez said the documents, authored by a Phoenix law firm and reviewed by the city attorney, ‘‘are basically how we do business’’ and cover routine investigative procedures through incident‑level responses. He told the council the orders were vetted by Edwards & Angell (authoring firm) and reviewed by Pearson Coleman (the city attorney’s firm) to ensure conformity with the personnel manual and current statutes.
City Manager Joel Kramer said the orders reflect a multi‑year effort to update policy and that implementation should provide a clearer framework for patrol, investigations and major incident response.
Why it matters: The general orders establish department expectations on use of force, evidence handling, arrests, dispatch, records and other everyday operations. Council members expressed appreciation for the volume and legal review; one councilor said reading the entire document took multiple days.
Council action: A motion to adopt the general orders carried unanimously. The chief and city staff will proceed with department implementation and related training.
Ending: Council members congratulated the department and staff for completing a long‑term policy update and emphasized adherence to the new orders as the department implements them.
