Policies & Procedures

The East Lansing Police Department's departmental policies and procedures have been posted online in an effort to increase transparency with the East Lansing community. Certain policies include sections that have been redacted. The sections that have been redacted contain operational guidelines that could negatively impact public safety and/or officer safety should they be published for public consumption.

Non-Redacted Policies

  1. Abandoned and Impounded Vehicles-Parking Warrants (PDF)
  2. Accident Investigation (PDF)
  3. Accurint (PDF)
  4. Annual In-Service Retraining and Hazmat Training (PDF)
  5. Arrestee-Prisoner Transport (PDF)
  6. Authority Outside Jurisdiction (PDF)
  7. Awards (PDF)
  8. Axon Recording System (PDF)
  9. Bicycle Officer Program (PDF)
  10. Code of Conduct (PDF)
  11. Complaint Against Employee (PDF)
  12. Department Clothing and Uniforms (PDF)
  13. Department Staffing Levels (PDF)
  14. Domestic Violence (PDF)
  15. Early Warning System (PDF)
  16. Employee Health and Welness - Sick Time (PDF)
  17. Eyewitness Identification (PDF)
  18. Fair and Impartial Policing (PDF)
  19. Forfeiture Seizures (PDF)
  20. FTO (PDF)
  21. Honor Guard (PDF)
  22. Interview Room & Interrogation (PDF)
  23. Juvenile Delinquency (PDF)
  24. LEIN (PDF)
  25. Line of Duty Death (PDF)
  26. Maintenance of Communication System (PDF)
  27. Media Relations (PDF)
  28. Mobile Video Recorder (PDF)
  29. Naloxone Administration (PDF)
  30. New Accreditation Manager Training (PDF)
  31. Overtime (PDF)
  32. Parking Structures - Use as Shelter (PDF)
  33. Personnel Qualifications and Availability (PDF)
  34. Police Chaplain (PDF)
  35. Processing and Holding Prisoners (PDF)
  36. Property and Evidence Management (PDF)
  37. Report Writing (PDF)
  38. Ride-Along (PDF)
  39. Safe Delivery of Newborn Infants (PDF)
  40. Secondary Employment (PDF)
  41. Sexual Harassment (PDF)
  42. Social Networking - Social Media (PDF)
  43. Social Security Numbers (PDF)
  44. Special Assignment Selection (PDF)
  45. Surveillance Technology Acquisition and Use (PDF)
  46. Training (PDF)
  47. Training of Newly Promoted Personnel (PDF)
  48. Vacation Request Guidelines (PDF)

Redacted Policies*

  1. Active Violence Incidents (PDF)
  2. Arrest Procedures - Interim Bond (PDF)
  3. Bomb Threat (PDF)
  4. Civil Disorders (PDF)
  5. Deadly Force Encounters (PDF)
  6. Ingham Regional Special Response Team (PDF)
  7. K9 Program (PDF)
  8. Mentally Ill (PDF)
  9. Mobile Data Computer Use (PDF)
  10. Operation of Department Vehicles (PDF)
  11. Parolee Notification (PDF)
  12. Response to Resistance (PDF)
*Portions of some of these policies have been redacted. Redacted items are operational in nature. The release of these redacted items would negatively impact public and/or officer safety.