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Agenda for May 24,
2002
Spring VCOPS Conference
Do you Need To Prove a Negative?
Introduction and update on VCOPS
9:00 - 9:15
1. The Burden of Proof in
Disciplinary Cases:
9:15 - 10:15
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Must the Department Prove Its charges or Do
you have
to Prove Your Innocence? |
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Who has the Burden of Proceeding First and
Does it
Matter? |
2. The Ethical Constraints of Dual
Roles of Management
in Grievances.
10:15 -11:00
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Can the Attorney for the Locality
Advocating your Discipline provide procedural advice to the Decision Maker?
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Can the Internal Affairs Supervisor provide
procedural advice
to the Chief or the police trial board during the grievance process?
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Stretch Break
3. FLSA Update
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Compensatory time Cases
11:15 -12:30 |
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Measure of Damages
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The Federal attack on
FLSA |
Lunch (on your own)
12:30 - 2:00
4. Fighting Polygraph Results
2:00 - 3:30
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Can the Polygraph be used in discipline in
Virginia? |
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Must you Prove your Polygraph Results are
Wrong? |
5. Internal Affairs Investigations
3:30 - 4:30
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How to handle an Interrogation.
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Are inconsistencies in testimony a
violation of General Orders on truthfulness? |
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