THE
TWO SERVICES OF EdPDLaw
EdPDLaw
offers two services for the law enforcement officer. The
maintenance of your
Personnel File and the Database.
EdPDLaw
is developed to track discipline trends within
Departments and
regions throughout the four states that it services.
EdPDLaw
takes this information and inputs the
information into its
database to calculate:
- The Departments most
prevalent charge;
- The number of times
that it uses the charge;
- The alleged reason to
bring this charge;
- Whether the officer
charged was/is in line for a promotion or assignment;
- And attempts to
determine the political reason for the charges being brought.
This
information is inputted into the Database on an anonymous basis with
each officer being assigned a number and only identified through that
number. The results of
the database are invaluable to the Department's Union, Union Attorney
and the individual officer.
If
a trend is identified, EdPDLaw will provide the Union with the
information necessary to file an unfair labor practice against the
Department and for the Union Attorney
to place language in the collective bargaining contract to protect
members against future
charges. See
Sample Report.
The
second service EdPDLaw offers is to maintain a duplicate personnel
file for its members. In developing this service EdPDLaw has
identified the numerous loopholes that
Departments use to successfully prosecute their officers. This
information has been compiled
through numerous interviews with Union Attorneys and other attorneys
that are frustrated with the inability to predict what is contained
within the officer's personnel file.
Many
cases come down to the contents of the officers' personnel files which
are all to often
incomplete, or missing information.
An
officer that has been classified as a "habitual
offender",
usually has a personnel file full of small infractions that are used to
justify "progressive
discipline".
These files were also void of any positive information that would
assist the Union's attorney in defending the charged officer.
When
the time came to defend these officers, the training certificates, all
the accolades,
every positive document had mysteriously disappeared leaving the
attorney's hands tied and
the officer SOL.
It is very apparent that had the officer maintained a copy of his
personnel file or had someone do it on his behalf, the outcome of these
charges would have been vastly different. It is for this reason that
EdPDLaw offers to maintain a duplicate
copy of your personnel file.
Personnel
File
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