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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7381
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 6272
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING PO LICE PURSUITS OF STOLEN MOTOR
VEHICLES BEING OPERA TED BY OR INVOLVING A PASSENGER
WHO IS A JUVENILE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 7-294ee of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) The Police Officer Standards and Training Council, established 3
under section 7-294b, and the Commissioner of Emergency Services 4
and Public Protection or the commissioner's designee, shall, within 5
available appropriations, jointly develop, adopt and revise, as 6
necessary, minimum standards and practices for the administration 7
and management of law enforcement units, as defined in section 7-8
294a. Such minimum standards and practices shall be based upon 9
standards established by the International Association of Chiefs of 10
Police and the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement 11
Agencies, Inc., and shall include, but need not be limited to, standards 12
and practices regarding bias-based policing, use of force, response to 13
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complaints that allege misconduct by police officers, use of electronic 15
defense weapons, eyewitness identification procedures, notifications in 16
death and related events and pursuits by police officers. Not later than 17
January 1, 2020, the minimum standards and practices for pursuits by 18
police officers shall be updated to include standards and practices that 19
govern the pursuit of a motor vehicle reported as stolen when it is 20
known to the officer or officers engaged in the pursuit that the 21
operator of or a passenger in the motor vehicle is a juvenile. The 22
council shall post such minimum standards and practices on the 23
council's Internet web site and disseminate such standards and 24
practices to law enforcement units. The council and commissioner or 25
the commissioner's designee shall jointly develop a process to review a 26
law enforcement unit's compliance with such minimum standards and 27
practices and issue a certificate of compliance with law enforcement 28
standards and practices to a law enforcement unit that meets or 29
exceeds such standards and practices. 30
(b) [On and after January 1, 2019, each] Each law enforcement unit 31
shall adopt, update and maintain (1) the minimum standards and 32
practices developed by the council pursuant to subsection (a) of this 33
section, or (2) a higher level of accreditation standards developed by 34
the council or the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement 35
Agencies, Inc. 36
(c) No civil action may be brought against a law enforcement unit 37
for damages arising from the failure of the law enforcement unit to 38
adopt and maintain such minimum standards and practices or a higher 39
level of accreditation standards. 40
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 7-294ee
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Statement of Purpose:
To require standards that govern a police pursuit of a stolen motor
vehicle being operated by or involving a passenger who is a juvenile.
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