Supervision

Policy No:
02/00-27; Policy No: 04/06
Effective Date:
Date Amended:

Legislative/Regulatory Requirements

Section 29 of the Adequacy Standards Regulation requires a police services board to have a policy on supervision.

In addition, section 10 requires the Chief of Police to:

  • ensure that there is 24 hour supervision available to members of the police service;
  • establish procedures and processes on supervision, including setting out the circumstances where a supervisor must be contacted and when a supervisor must be present at an incident; and
  • ensure that the police service’s supervisors have the knowledge, skills and abilities to supervise.

Board Policy

It is the policy of the Regional Municipality of York Police Services Board with respect to supervision that the Chief of Police will:

  1. ensure that there is 24 hour supervision available to members of the police service;
  2. establish procedures on supervision that set out the circumstances where a supervisor must be contacted and when a supervisor must be present at an incident, including for all major case incidents; and
  3. establish a selection process to ensure that members appointed permanently to supervisory positions have the knowledge, skills and abilities for the supervisory positions.