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Focus: All police traffic
investigators and collision reconstructionists. Additionally,
command staff officers and all agency attorneys and risk-managers
responsible for liability prevention practices.
Length: 8
hours
There are few police
incidents that carry a greater likelihood of litigation and financial
loss than that of an officer-involved vehicle collision. Even
those small incidents resulting in damage to property with no injuries
can create a significant financial and energy drain on the agency's
resources. But when a civilian is injured--or even killed--in
any collision with a police vehicle, the civil liability and potential
for adverse judgments skyrocket exponentially. Additionally,
there are community relations perspectives and concerns that must be
addressed in all collisions, as well as questions that must be
answered in a timely manner to satisfy the citizens' need for a
responsive police ageny.
This course provides a
step-by-step training seminar to permit your agency to avoid the
minefields that every officer-involved collision possesses. It
not only alerts you to what is needed in the final investigative
report, but also provides cutting edge methods of avoiding the
pitfalls and mistakes that are commonly seen that create added and
unnecessary liability to your jurisdiction.
Course Content:
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Liability
Associated with Police Collisions.
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Current Plaintiffs
Trends.
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At the Scene:
Response and Protection.
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At the Scene:
Protocols.
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The Case File.
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The Collision
Review Process.
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The Discipline
Process.
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Re-Training and
Documentation.
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Eliminating
Liability at the Scene.
Officer-involved
collisions are going to occur--while the number and frequency might be
able to be decreased, the statistical reality is that for every "X"
thousands of miles driven by your officers, there will be a number of
fender benders, a number of injuries, and a number of fatalities. In
each instance, there is liability exposure. This liability
exposure increases when the investigation of that collision does not
include important components that mitigate or even eliminate
liability. This course is the only one of its kind that provides
the information you need when your officer is involved in a collision.
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