HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-04-28; Community-Police Engagement Commission; 01; Police Department ComplaintsMeeting Date: April 28, 2025
To: Community-Police Engagement Commission
From: Faviola Medina, Director of Constituent & Clerk Services
Staff Contact: Christie Calderwood, Chief of Police
Christie.calderwood@carlsbadca.gov, 442-339-2216
Subject: Police Department Complaints
District: All
Recommended Action
Receive a report from the Chief of Police regarding complaints from the community and internally
within the Police Department.
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Section 21065 in that it has no potential to cause either a direct physical change in the
environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment.
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Community-Police Engagement Commission
April 28, 2025 Item #1 Page 1 of 1
Community-Police Engagement
Commission
Christie Calderwood, Chief of Police
April 28, 2025
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TODAY’S PRESENTATION
•P.D Policy 1020-Personnel Complaint
Procedure
•How to file a complaint
•Summary of Complaints from 2024
–Internal and External (posted on
website)
Item 1- POLICE DEPARTMENT
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Carlsbad Police Policy 1020
Type 1 and Type 2 Complaints
Website link https://www.carlsbadca.gov/departments/police/complaint
2024
Internal Affairs Complaints
Most common complaint: Discourtesy
Internal, 5,
19%
External, 14,
54%
T/C, 7, 27%Sustained, 7, 37%
Not Sustained, 2, 10%Unfounded, 8, 42%
Exonerated, 2, 11%
QUESTIONS or
FEEDBACK?
POLICE DEPARTMENT
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