Probation Officers: Arming for Safety
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 02, 2011
ANNOTATION: The need to provide a limited number of probation officers with firearms is explained. This assertion is made in regards to changing the Marin County Probation Department’s prohibition on the possession of firearms by probation officers. This document discusses: probation officers are peace officers; the Marin County Probation Department’s position on arming; on-duty versus off-duty arming of a probation officer; the changing role of a probation officer; on chief’s change of heart to the use of firearms for officer safety; the trend to arming—a statewide survey; the San Diego experience; field realities; the union view; the police perspective; and specific findings of the Grand Jury. It is recommended that the involved parties "work in concert to immediately develop and implement a limited arming policy for Marin County probation officers” (p. 11).
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