• TN Certification Form on Use of Force and Safe Policing for Communities

    The Department of Justice has charged the TACP with making sure our local law enforcement partners are aware of the President’s Executive Order (EO) No. 13929 on Safe Policing for Communities issued June 16, 2020. This EO’s goal is to ensure law enforcement agencies continue to provide transparent, safe, and accountable services to their communities. This EO provides that, if a law enforcement agency intends to apply for federal discretionary grant funds, the agency must ensure it complies with the required safe policing principles outline below, or in the process of doing so by the deadline of January 31, 2021.
  • Mandatory safe policing principles:

    Submission of this form represents, to the best of my knowledge, that the agency under my purview, meets certain use-of-force eligibility requirements, set forth by the U.S. Department of Justice, for discretionary federal grants. With this confirmation letter, our agency likewise respectfully requests credentials from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Accreditation Program, certifying compliance with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Standards for Certification on Use of Force and Safe Policing for Communities.

    I have reviewed the Presidential Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, dated June 16, 2020, Executive Order No. 13929 (the “Executive Order on Safe Policing”). I understand that, based on the Executive Order on Safe Policing, the U.S. Department of Justice’s discretionary grant funding is only available to state, local, tribal, and university or college law enforcement agencies that have obtained (or are in the process of seeking) credentials certifying that they meet certain standards on use of force. I further understand that the Executive Order on Safe Policing empowers the U.S. Attorney General to designate independent credentialing bodies — such as the Tennessee Law Enforcement Accreditation Program — to certify that a law enforcement agency meets the conditions of eligibility for federal grants.

    The U.S. Attorney General has released a guidance document titled Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities to inform law enforcement agencies and credentialing bodies of these requirements.  The guidance document is available on the Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities.

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  • Because we believe that we meet the criteria above, we respectfully request that the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police include our agency within its database of certified law enforcement agencies. Please provide our agency information to the U.S. Department of Justice with other eligible agencies. We further attest that we have supplied the Tenneessee Association of Chiefs of Police with applicable policies and procedures to verify our certification request.

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