QUINCY (WGEM) - The SAFE-T act is set to go into effect in Illinois at the start of the new year and the Quincy Police Department and the Adams County State’s Attorney’s Office say they are in the process of making sure they are ready when that happens.
The act has new requirements and standards law enforcement departments need to abide by such as the end of cash bail. QPD Deputy Chief of Operations Michael Tyler said one new requirement is 30 extra hours of training for individual officers every three years. He said normally these trainings are optional for departments.
Tyler said the trainings cover topics like sexual assault or trauma-informed response, civil rights, reporting abuse, and self-defense training. He said extra training is good, though there is a concern the training might take officers off the street, depending if it’s in a classroom or in another city. He said he’s already having his officers start working on the training.
He said they are also working with the Adams County State’s Attorney’s office in regard to changes in the way they compile evidence.
“When our officers arrest and lodge them, instead of doing a short narrative on the reason why we arrested the person and why we believe they did the crime, we are going to have to add more things into that report which is usually what we do with our general offense report, our longer reports so we are just going to have to get that information faster to the states attorney’s office, so that they have that...
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