EXCLUSIVE: A New Policing Code of Ethics Distributed to Police Departments

In an exclusive interview with host Jeff Pegues, Chief Doug Shoemaker (Ret.), and former member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Executive Board and one of the leaders of the working group that revised the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, delineates why for the first time in 67 years the Policing Code of Ethics has been revised, and the importance behind the new Policing Code of Ethics. Stressing the totality of policing, Shoemaker explains that law enforcement is only one of the many functions of effective policing. “When you step back from that term and look at everything that police truly do in their daily routine, their response to calls for service, …very little of it actually involves what I'll call ‘law enforcement’”, says Shoemaker. “When you look at the daily routine of an officer in any community, anywhere across the United States, in Canada, across the world…a lot of the things that we deal with have nothing to do with violations of the law.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.