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Professional Standards

Training

Elk Grove police officers attended 30 hours of professional training in 2019 on a variety of topics. Training
including racial profiling, tactical communications and de-escalation. All Elk Grove PD personnel attended an 8-
hour Procedural Justice course. This course emphasizes respect, listening, neutrality and trust, while recognizing
and addressing implicit biases that can be barriers to these approaches.

DID YOU KNOW?

In 2019, the EGPD Crisis Intervention training
program became POST certified. In addition to
the POST certification, the department now
has 3 internal instructors who develop
curriculum to teach officers how to safely
handle mental heath consumers in crisis.

2019 Complaints

When the investigation
The Elk Grove Police Department received 28* formal complaints :
discloses that the allegation is
not true. Complaints that are
- 11 citizen complaints Unfounded determined to be frivolous
- 17 internally generated complaints will fall within the

COMPLAINT DISPOSITION classification of unfounded.
When the investigation clearly
established that the actions of
Unfounded - 1
Other - 3 Exonerated the member that formed the
Exonerated - 3 basis for the complaint are
not violations of law or
Not Department policy.

Sustained - 1 When the investigation
discloses that there is
Not
sustained insufficient evidence to
sustain the complaint or fully
Sustained - 4 exonerate the member.

When the investigation
discloses sufficient evidence
Sustained to establish that the act
In Process - 13 occurred and it constituted
misconduct.
Currently undergoing the
In Process
investigative process.
* 3 complaints had dispositions of: “withdrawn,” or “within policy.”
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