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POLICY DEVELOPMENT: FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
Review the feedback you received from your instructor for the Policy Development Draft.
Make the necessary changes to your work, and resubmit the final Policy Development.
Law Enforcement Organizations are facing a tremendous problem with social media. On one
hand, social media such as Facebook, My Space, and Twitter can be extremely useful for
effective and efficient communication. On the other hand, Law Enforcement Executives are
constantly facing situations in which employee misconduct is occurring through social media.
Police Officers are accessing social media from their workstations and patrol cars during their
shifts. Police Officers are posting information that is unbecoming for an officer as well as
degrading and disrespectful to the profession. Police Unions and Police Officer Organizations
such as the Fraternal Order of Police and the PBA are opposed to departmental policies that
infringe on police officers' constitutional rights. How do law enforcement organizations regulate
the use of social media? Just about every major law enforcement organization has a Facebook
account associated with the organization's website. Therefore, should law enforcement
organizations regulate individual officer's social media activity?
As the policy manager for your law enforcement organization, please research the best practices
related to the regulation of police officers use of social media and develop a department policy.
This research should include interviews with your local law enforcement leaders to determine
how they are addressing this issue. In addition, please read the "Social Media" study conducted
by the International Association of Chiefs of Police; it can be found in the Reading & Study
folder of Module/Week 8.
You must have at least 5 pages not including your title page.
The Policy Development: Final is to be submitted by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of