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May 17, 2017

Detroit Police Department Appointment Ceremony {0}

DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT’S APPOINTMENT CEREMONY
The Detroit Police Department’s Appointment Ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 19, 2017, at Detroit Public Safety Headquarters (Michigan Room), located at 1301 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan 48226.
All Newly appointed Corporals and Neighborhood Police Officers shall dress in the Class A Uniform.
THE RANK OF ASSISTANT CHIEF
Arnold W. Williams, II
THE RANK OF DEPUTY CHIEF
Todd A. Bettison
THE RANK OF COMMANDER
Eric M. Decker
Mark S. Bliss
THE RANK OF CORPORAL
Keith Baker
David Fitzpatrick
Matthew Singer
Eric Carthan
Gary Guarino
Donyale Crutchfield
Wayne Brown
Maurice Alexander
Gary Steele
Kimberly Love
Paul Knapp
Dennis Smith
Julian Sage
Kenneth Hampton
Daniel Harnphanich
Irvan Higgins
Christopher Harwood
Terry Hardy
Josif Angelovski
William Johnson
Irvette Reed
Jose Martinez
THE RANK OF NEIGHBORHOOD POLICE
Carrie Livingston
Kiaronda Mitchell
Lisa Sledge
Tiffani Bowles-Davis
Timothy Cox
Victoria Eschen
Donny Harris
Anthony Jackson
Melanie Malone
Lashanna McGhee
Tiffany Murphy
Donald Parker
John Pinchum
Romell Randolph
Eric Scott
Amy Szarafinski
Garrett Taylor
Marcia Williams
On behalf of the Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeant Association Congratulations to all!

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Apr 5, 2017

FYI! Michigan SB-223, Would require Law Enforcement Agencies to maintain a record regarding the reason for and the circumstances surrounding a separation of service from a police department. {0}

FYI! SB-0223, As Passed Senate, March 23, 2017

Please take the time to read this Legislation that affects Michigan Law Enforcement that passed the Michigan Senate on Thursday, March 23, 2017.

We will keep you informed of the progress of this legislation.

DPLSA

SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 223

A bill to require the creation and maintenance of certain law

enforcement officer personnel records; to prescribe the information

that may be contained in the personnel records; to permit law

enforcement officers to review the personnel records; and to

provide for immunity from civil liability to law enforcement

agencies in certain circumstances.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “law

 

enforcement officer separation of service record act”.

 

Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

(a) “Commission” means the Michigan commission on law

 

enforcement standards created in section 3 of the Michigan

 

commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL

 

28.603.

 

(b) “Former employing law enforcement agency” means a law

 


enforcement agency in this state that was the employer of, or that

 

issued an oath of office to, a law enforcement officer licensed

 

under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act,

 

1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615, and that was required to

 

maintain an employment history record for that law enforcement

 

officer under the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards

 

act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615.

 

Sec. 3. (1) In addition to the employment history record

 

required to be maintained under the Michigan commission on law

 

enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615, by a

 

law enforcement agency for each officer it employs or for each

 

officer to whom the chief of police of a village, city, or township

 

or county sheriff has administered an oath of office, a law

 

enforcement agency shall maintain a record regarding the reason or

 

reasons for, and circumstances surrounding, a separation of service

 

for each law enforcement officer for whom the law enforcement

 

agency is required to maintain an employment history record under

 

the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA

 

203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615, who subsequently separates from the law

 

enforcement agency or from his or her employment as a law

 

enforcement officer requiring the administration of an oath of

 

office under section 9c or 9d of the Michigan commission on law

 

enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.609c and 28.609d.

 

(2) The law enforcement agency shall allow a separating law

 

enforcement officer to review a record prepared under subsection

 

(1) upon the request of the separating officer.

 

(3) If a separating law enforcement officer disagrees with the


accuracy of the contents of the record prepared under subsection

 

(1), he or she may request the correction or removal of the portion

 

of the record he or she believes is incorrect. If the law

 

enforcement agency and the separating law enforcement officer

 

cannot reach an agreement on the contents of the record prepared

 

under subsection (1), the separating law enforcement officer may

 

submit a written statement explaining the separating law

 

enforcement officer’s position and the basis for his or her

 

disagreement. If a separating law enforcement officer submits a

 

written statement under this subsection, it must be kept with the

 

record required under subsection (1) and provided with the rest of

 

the contents of the record as required under section 5.

 

Sec. 5. (1) A law enforcement officer who is licensed or who

 

was previously licensed or certified under the Michigan commission

 

on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to

 

28.615, and was previously employed as a law enforcement officer in

 

this state, who separates from his or her employing law enforcement

 

agency or from employment as a law enforcement officer to whom an

 

oath of office has been administered under section 9c or 9d of the

 

Michigan commission on law enforcement standards act, MCL 28.609c

 

and 28.609d, and who subsequently seeks to become reemployed as a

 

law enforcement officer in this state, shall provide to the

 

prospective employing law enforcement agency, upon offer of

 

employment, a signed waiver. A waiver executed under this

 

subsection must expressly allow the prospective employing law

 

enforcement agency to contact the law enforcement officer’s former

 

employing law enforcement agency or agencies and seek a copy of the


record regarding the reason or reasons for, and circumstances

 

surrounding, his or her separation of service created by his or her

 

former employing law enforcement agency or agencies under section

 

3.

 

(2) A waiver under subsection (1) must be executed on a form

 

provided by the commission to all law enforcement agencies in this

 

state that employ or administer oaths of office to law enforcement

 

officers licensed under the Michigan commission on law enforcement

 

standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615. The prospective

 

employing law enforcement agency is responsible for providing the

 

waiver executed under subsection (1) to the former employing law

 

enforcement agency or agencies.

 

(3) Upon receipt of the waiver executed under subsection (1),

 

a former employing law enforcement agency shall provide, along with

 

other information required or allowed to be provided by law, a copy

 

of the record required under section 3 to the prospective employing

 

law enforcement agency.

 

(4) A prospective employing law enforcement agency shall not

 

hire a law enforcement officer to whom subsection (1) applies

 

unless the prospective employing law enforcement agency receives

 

the record created under section 3 from the law enforcement

 

officer’s former employing law enforcement agency or agencies.

 

(5) A former employing law enforcement agency that discloses

 

information under this section in good faith after receipt of a

 

waiver executed under subsection (1) is immune from civil liability

 

for the disclosure. A former employing law enforcement agency is

 

presumed to be acting in good faith at the time of a disclosure


under this section unless a preponderance of the evidence

 

establishes 1 or more of the following:

 

(a) That the former employing law enforcement agency knew that

 

the information disclosed was false or misleading.

 

(b) That the former employing law enforcement agency disclosed

 

the information with a reckless disregard for the truth.

 

(c) That the disclosure was specifically prohibited by a state

 

or federal statute.

 

Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the

 

date it is enacted into law.

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2017 DPLSA Annual Golf Outing Fund – Raiser

Mar 28, 2017

2017 DPLSA Annual Golf Outing Fund – Raiser {0}

2017 DPLSA Golf Outing
Mark Your Calenders!
Friday, June 23, 2017
Registration 7 am, Tee Off at 8 am
Woodside Meadows Club
20820 Inkster Road
Romulus Michigan, 48174
Fee $125
Please come and support our Annual Fund -Raiser
Please Post and Share, thank you!
Call 313 961-5699 for any questions

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Mar 27, 2017

24th Annual Michigan Peace Officers’ Candlelight Memorial Service {0}

24th Annual Michigan Peace Officers’ Candlelight Memorial Service

May 1 — Michigan

Monday, May 1: 24th Annual Michigan Peace Officers’ Candlelight Memorial Service — 7 p.m. east steps of Lansing State Capitol, 100 North Capitol Avenue. Contact Denise Scarbrough, Michigan Concerns of Police Survivors President at (877) 464-2677 or email survivor@micops.org

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Mar 27, 2017

National Police Week 2017 – Washington DC {0}

National Police Week 2017 – Washington DC
Saturday, May 13: 29th Annual Candlelight Vigil — 8 p.m. No tickets required. Vigil will be held the National Mall between 4th and 7th streets, NW. Call (202) 737-3400. A reading of the newly engraved names at 9 p.m. Register to watch the live Vigil webcast at http://www.nleomf.org/candle-light-vigil-wall/

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Mar 23, 2017

Attached are the Mandatory Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) License Revocation Provisions, please review! {0}

Attached are the Mandatory Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) License Revocation Provisions, please review!

LICENSE REVOCATION

 

I. MCOLES license revocation will occur if a licensed officer is:

 

A. Subjected to an adjudication of guilt for an offense in any jurisdiction that is punishable by more than 1 year of imprisonment; or

 

B. Subjected to an adjudication of guilt for any of the following Michigan misdemeanors, or equivalent offenses in another jurisdiction:

 

1. MCL 750.81(4)

 

Second offense for assaulting or assaulting and battering any of the following:

 

  1. current or former spouse;
  2. current or former dating partner;
  3. current or former co-parent;
  4. or current or former co-resident of a household; or
  5. person whom the defendant knows is pregnant.

     

    2. MCL 750.81a(1)

     

    Assaulting an individual without a weapon and inflicting serious or aggravated injury, without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm less than murder.

     

    3. MCL 750.81a(2)

     

    Assaulting or battering any of the following, without a weapon and inflicting serious or aggravated injury, without intending to commit murder or to inflict great bodily harm less than murder:

     

  1. current or former spouse;
  2. current or former dating partner;
  3. current or former co-parent;
  4. or current or former co-resident of a household; or
  5. person whom the defendant knows is pregnant.

     

    4. MCL 750.411h(2)(a)

     

    Stalking.

     

     

    5. MCL 333.7403(2)(c)

     

    Possessing any of the following controlled substances, or their analogues, without a valid prescription:

     

  1. LSD;
  2. peyote;
  3. mescaline;
  4. dimethyltryptamine;
  5. psilocin;
  6. psilocybin; or
  7. any Schedule 5 controlled substance.

     

    6. MCL 333.7404(2)

     

    Using any of the following controlled substances, or their analogues, without a valid prescription:

     

  1. those listed in schedules 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ;
  2. MDMA;
  3. coca leaves and any of its salts, compounds, or derivatives; and
  4. methamphetamine, including its salts, stereoisomers, and salts of stereoisomers;
  5. LSD;
  6. Peyote;
  7. Mescaline;
  8. Dimethyltryptamine;
  9. psilocin; or
  10. psilocybin.

     

    7. MCL 257.625

     

    OWI or OWPD, if there was a prior conviction in the preceding 7 years, as that term is defined in MCL 257.625(25)(b).

     

    II. An “adjudication of guilt” that triggers license revocation includes any of the following:

     

  1. Judgment of guilty;

     

  2. Plea of guilty;

     

  3. Plea of guilty but mentally ill;
  4. Plea of nolo contendere;

     

  5. An order delaying sentence entered in conjunction with a disqualifying offense;

     

  6. An order of probation entered under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act in conjunction with a disqualifying offense.

     

  7. An order of probation entered under MCL 333.7411 in conjunction with a disqualifying first-time controlled substance offense; or

     

  8. An order of probation entered under MCL 769.4a in conjunction with a disqualifying first-time assaultive offense.

     

     

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Mar 16, 2017

FYI, Better Health for Law Enforcement {0}

FYI, GOOD TO KNOW!

Dr. Oz’s Ultimate Supplement Checklist
Dr. Oz sheds light on one of the most confusing health issues: What vitamins you should be taking daily. Find out what 4 supplements he takes every day and why you should too.

If you’ve ever stood paralyzed in the vitamin aisle, facing the alphabet soup of supplements, fear no more. This is Dr. Oz’s Ultimate Supplement Checklist. Learn what to take, why your body needs it and the proper dose.
A Multivitamin
A study of 3 million people revealed that less than 1% of the participants got enough essential vitamins from diet alone. That’s why you must take a multivitamin; it also helps prevent heart disease, breast cancer and colon cancer.

The Dose
Look for 100% of the daily value of the 12 essential vitamins and minerals – like vitamins B, C, E and zinc. Note: Only women who are menstruating need a multivitamin with iron. If you are post-menopausal or a male, you do not need a multivitamin that contains iron.
More is not better – avoid “mega-doses.” You only need 100% daily value, not 500%.
Take half in the morning and half at night to maximize absorption. You use a multivitamin’s various components during the chemical reactions that occur throughout your body. So, maintaining constant levels assures a steady supply of these vital nutrients
The Calcium Cocktail
Calcium is a necessary supplement for strong, healthy muscles, bones and teeth. You need to take it in combination with magnesium (to prevent the negative side effects of calcium) and vitamin D (to help the body absorb calcium) in order to get the maxium benefit.

The Dose
Calcium (600 mg) with magnesium (400 mg) and vitamin D (1,000 IU)
Take dose with a full glass of water, 2 hours after eating. Calcium can block the absorption of other supplements and prescriptions, so be sure to take it separately.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and is integral the health of your immune system, blood vessels, muscles and nervous systems. Most of us don’t get enough vitamin D from sunlight, especially if you live in a northern climate or are dark-skinned. Vitamin D may also play a role in preventing certain cancers, including colon, uterine, breast and endometrial cancers.
The Dose
1,000 IU – this dose can be included in multi-vitamins, so make sure you read labels carefully.
Vitamin D is fat soluble, so it works better when taken with a little fat. Try taking it at breakfast with milk or yogurt.
Fish Oil
Fish oil contains omega-3 fatty acids called DHA and EPA which are essential for optimal functioning of the heart and brain. They reduce arterial inflammation, which can lower your risk for a heart attack. Fish oil is also associated with a 32% reduced risk of breast cancer. While a controversial report this year indicated that fish oil supplements could be dangerous due to possible trace amounts of mercury and/or PCBs (cancer-causing chemicals found in fish swimming in polluted waters), this small amount is not enough to be a concern. Click here for guidelines on buying fish oil with the necessary levels of DHA and EPA.

The Dose
Your daily dose must contain 600 mgs of the DHA omega-3 fatty acid.
Take fish oil with breakfast to avoid “fishy burps,” a side-effect some report when fish oil is taken on an empty stomach.
Many fish oils recommended refrigeration to keep them from spoiling. Check the label carefully.
Baby Aspirin
Though technically not a supplement, baby aspirin can help prevent heart attacks and it can reduce the chance of stroke. Recent studies suggest an added benefit: aspirin has been linked to the prevention of almost every cancer.

The Dose
Take 2 baby aspirin daily.
Consult your doctor before starting a daily aspirin regimen.

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Mar 16, 2017

City of Detroit Benefits Survey {0}

Last week we informed you that the City of Detroit was going to forward you a survey regarding the 2018 Health Care Enrollment. The survey is more restrictive than we believed it would be because we believe there should be more concerns addressed in the survey.
 
The DPLSA is working towards more affordable options for our membership with lower co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles along with more health care concerns covered. We are also seeking enhancement to our current prescription coverage. We also want our members to be able to seek treatment wherever they choose and we support wellness options.
 
Ultimately we want Health Care plans that matter for our membership because they deserve it for their families and themselves!
 
I have attached the link for the survey, please take the time to review and address your concerns, thank you, take care of each other and stay safe!
 

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Mar 13, 2017

Retirement Celebration for Investigator Suzette Sharper after serving the Detroit Police Department for over (30) years of committed, honorable and dedicated service. {0}

Retirement Celebration for Investigator Suzette Sharper after serving the Detroit Police Department for over (30) years of committed, honorable and dedicated service.

Monday, March 20, 2017

11:30 am to 2:00 pm

Public Safety Headquarters (Michigan Room)

1301 Third

Detroit, Michigan 48226

Please join us in saying thank you to one of “Detroit’s Finest”

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Mar 7, 2017

Please join us at the 24th Annual State of Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Candlelight Memorial Service at 7 pm at the State Capitol,100 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing Michigan May 1, 2017. {0}

Please join us at the 24th Annual State of Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Candlelight Memorial Service at 7 pm at the State Capitol,100 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing Michigan May 1, 2017.

The Following Detroit Police Members families will be honored:

For more information please contact Michigan Concerns of Police Survivors President, at (877) 464-2677 or email survivor@micops.org

Corporal Myron A. Jarrett (EOW 10/28/16)

Captain Kenneth Steil (EOW 9/17/16)

Lieutenant Kevin Dwayne Miller (EOW 6/29/2016)

Sergeant Collin Rose, Wayne State University Police Department (EOW 11/23/16)

Please mark your calendars so that we can car pool or do whatever is needed to show our support to honor our members of our department who gave the ultimate sacrifice, thank you!

DPLSA

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