The Police and Community committee spent two hours discussing the Topeka Police Department’s policy before it ran out of time in this meeting. The committee will meet again to continue its review of TPD’s use of force, de-escalation, duty to intervene, and standard interaction and bias profiling policies. Council members on the committee were provided with the department’s training policies, and were given time to question officers, Police Chief Bill Cochran and the police’s legal counsel Mark Jones. Council member Karen Hiller said the review of the police department is about how well TPD policy is written and how well officers are following that policy.
Source: Local News | Topeka Capital-Journal
