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OCC director outlines complaint process as community members report alleged officer misconduct
Summary
Joyce Hicks, Executive Director of the Office of Citizens' Complaints, described OCC operations and mediation results; multiple members of the public reported alleged officer misconduct and private-property seizure and the commission agreed to follow-up including OCC contact and a proposed closed-session briefing on an active homicide investigation.
Joyce Hicks, executive director of the Office of Citizens' Complaints (OCC), briefed the Police Commission on the OCC’s mission, staffing and services, telling the commission the office conducts impartial investigations, forwards sustained findings to the chief and offers mediation as an alternative to discipline.
"My office has a 30 member staff, the majority of whom are investigators... We are staffed by a very diverse group of civilians who have never been police officers," Hicks said, listing languages the OCC can serve and noting mediation outcomes (47 mediations last year; 17 in the first quarter of the current year).
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