Sexual assault or sexual harassment does not include a frisk search or other search done in accordance with proper department procedures. 4.8 Correctional Officers shall avoid continuous personal, off-duty, associations with persons who are known to engage in criminal activity. This rule does not prohibit those associations that are necessary to the performance of official duties, or where such associations are unavoidable because of the officer's personal or family relationships. Principle Five Correctional Officers shall treat all members of the public courteously and with respect, including inmates, arrestees, visitors, and colleagues. Rationale Correctional Officers are a visible and integral part of the criminal justice system.
Correctional officers are role models for inmates, families of inmates, and their peers.
Therefore, Correctional Officers must make a positive impression when interacting with inmates, the public and each other. Rules 5.1 Correctional Officers shall exercise courtesy in their dealings with arrestees, inmates, facility visitors, the public, fellow officers, superiors and subordinates. No correctional officer shall ridicule, mock, deride, taunt, belittle, willfully embarrass, humiliate, or shame any person, including arrestees or inmates, or do anything reasonably calculated to incite a person to violence. 5.3 Correctional Officers shall promptly advise any inquiring citizen of the Department's complaint procedure, and shall follow the established departmental policy for processing complaints. Principle Six Correctional Officers shall not compromise their integrity, nor that of their Department or profession, by accepting, giving or soliciting any gratuity that could be reasonably interpreted as capable of influencing their official acts or judgments, or by using their status as a correctional officer for personal, commercial, or political gain.