By adopting the POST medical procedures and criteria, won’t a department be shielding itself from legal liability?
A.Although the POST medical screening protocols have been considered as the standard of practice in several court decisions, it is still incumbent upon individual departments to ensure that the assumptions about the job upon which the Manual’s protocols were based are sufficiently relevant to the peace officers in their operation, and to concur with the risk management guidelines offered in the Manual.
Related Questions
- POST requires departments to establish their own medical screening procedures and evaluation criteria. Why doesn’t POST provide these to its member departments?
- Must the same medical procedures and criteria be used for all levels of peace officers (e.g., Level III reserves)?
- Why should Physician-Assisted Suicide be legal?
