Standards and Procedures

The Outagamie County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) maintains high standards and expectations for its staff to ensure professionalism, integrity, and public trust. These include:

Standards:

1. Professionalism: All employees are expected to perform their duties with respect, honesty, and a commitment to excellence, maintaining a positive public , even off duty deputies are expected to not get citations or in to trouble and you must always use SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) when on-duty.
   
   

2. Integrity: OCSO staff must uphold the law and ethical standards, acting with transparency, fairness, and accountability at all times.
   
   

3. Respect and Diversity: Officers are expected to treat all individuals with respect, embracing diversity and ensuring fair treatment for all members of the community.
   
   

4. Safety and Accountability: Adherence to safety protocols and best practices is crucial to protecting both officers and the public, with each member held accountable for their actions and decisions.

5.  Radio Traffic: We highly advise you memorize the 10 codes as it is a requirement to be be in use when radiong anything in and you must use grammar in RTO. Example: For example when you are in a traffic stop you would say "10-11 with a *vehicle description, 10-20 is (location), no 10-32s / 32s needed." You are not required to use this type of format but it must be similar as this.

Procedures:

6. Traffic Stop: When in a Traffic Stop you must use the stage 2 lights and traffic advisors, to signal the driver to pull over you would blip the MAN siren. Once you have radioed in the traffic stop you would exit your vehicle and walk behind your car towards the suspects passenger side window, your introduction should resemble this format: "Hello, I am (rank) (roleplay name) with the Outagamie County Sheriffs Office, any idea towards why I stopped you?", you would then ask for their license, registration and prove of insurance, once you have acquired these documents you would run the /profile command and their username, you would check if the vehicle is registered and if they have an active warrant, and from there on you would run the normal procedures you learn in the training academy, the following commands are the command that you would use on a regular basis when on duty.

• /profile ~ Run a users profile to check for registration, past citations, any outstanding warrants or to simply check if a user has an active license status.

• /ticket ~ This command would hand out a citation to said user and contains all the information you are required to fill out.

7. Arrests: When apprehending a suspect you must say "-cuffs-" to show that you have detained the suspect, once the suspect has been apprehended you would inform them why they would get arrested by saying "You are under arrest for (reason)." or "You are being put under arrested due to (reason)." You would then do the following:

• You would then search the male/female and or their vehicle by saying "-searches-" and then say "(WDIF?)".

• After searching the suspect and or their vehicle you would then read them their Miranda rights: "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be usede against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you by the state of Wisconsin.", after stating their rights you would ask them "Do you still wish to speak to me knowing those rights?"

• Once you are transporting the suspect you would radio it in by saying " (R) Transporting X(suspects in custody) To the (department station).

• Once you have arrived to the cells you would take mugshots of the suspects. (Front, Right, Back, Left) and log it in #arrest-reports and #citation-logs if there was a citation handed out aswell.

• Once they have served their time you would make them sign both documents and hand them a copy if one is requested.

8. Collaboration: The Sheriff's Office promotes teamwork and communication, fostering a supportive environment where officers work together to achieve common goals. 

~  To add on a deputy MUST not break any laws while representing the departments. If caught doing so disciplinary actions will be taken.

~ And always use common sense.

~  Deputies can break laws when off-duty but must follow these rules:

1. Must not receive up to 5 citations on your user profile.

2. Not representing the department in any way.