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MPD presents new foot‑pursuit policy and an electronic‑storage‑detection canine to FPC
Summary
Assistant Chief Craig Serna told the commission MPD has created SOP 100 (foot pursuits) emphasizing articulable reasonable suspicion, supervisory oversight, and alternatives to pursuit; MPD also detailed an ESD canine named Ellis acquired via a National Computer Forensics Institute grant.
At the April 2 meeting Assistant Chief Craig Serna described two MPD communications: a new foot‑pursuit policy (SOP 100) and an electronic‑storage‑detection (ESD) canine assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children unit.
Serna said SOP 100 requires officers to employ articulable or reasonable suspicion before initiating foot pursuits, activate body‑worn cameras, use supervisory oversight to manage or terminate pursuits when risks outweigh the need…
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