General Orders Details

Purpose

To provide the Indiana University Police Department (IUPD) with guidance surrounding the control of authorized weapons.

General Order

The IUPD will implement controls to track the location and status of all agency weapons.  The IUPD will provide guidelines for safe storage of weapons. The IUPD will establish procedures to ensure that all weapons pass an inspection before being issued and an annual safety inspection. The IUPD will remove from service any weapon determined to be unsafe.

Definitions

Agency Weapon – Any weapon owned by the IUPD. This includes both lethal and less-lethal weapons.

Armorer – An IUPD officer, appointed by the superintendent for public safety, deputy superintendent for public safety or division chief of police, responsible for the care and maintenance of IUPD firearms and who has completed training from a certifying authority on the care and maintenance of specific firearms.

Authorized Employee – An armorer, supervisor, or instructor certified to instruct on a specific weapons system such as firearms or electronic control weapons.

Authorized Weapon – Any firearm defined in G7.2.2 Firearms and Ammunition or any less-lethal weapon defined in G7.2.1 Less-Lethal Weapons on which an IUPD employee has received training and demonstrated proficiency, as specified in G7.2.4 Weapons Proficiency.

Inventory Management System (IMS) – A database and software system for tracking the quantity, location, and status of department assets.

Quartermaster – An employee responsible for inventory control.

Agency Weapons Issuance and Inventory Control (7.2.3 a)

Weapons Issuance

Agency weapons may be issued, assigned, and recovered by an armorer or supervisor.

Officers will review all general orders regarding weapons management and attest that they understand and will abide by the general orders before being issued agency weapons. Records of completed attestations will be maintained in the written directives system.

Authorized employees or quartermasters issuing a weapon will maintain a record of each weapon that is issued, assigned, or returned in the IMS. The IMS record will contain:

• Date of issue, assignment, or return,
• Serial number or a unique identifier, if applicable,
• Officer or storage location to which the weapon was issued, assigned or returned,
• Identity of the officer who issued, assigned, or recovered the weapon,
• Associated equipment that was issued, assigned, or returned.

Batons

When issuing a baton, quartermasters will issue a baton and a baton holder that can be attached to a duty belt or load bearing vest.

Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray

When issuing OC spray, quartermasters will issue a canister of OC spray and a pouch for holding the OC spray canister that can be attached to a duty belt or load bearing vest.

Electronic Control Weapons (ECW)

When issuing an ECW or assigning an ECW for pool use, authorized employees will issue or assign the ECW, a holster that can be attached to a duty belt or load bearing vest, and two ECW cartridges.

Pepper Ball Launchers

When issuing a pepper ball launcher or assigning a pepper ball launcher for pool use, authorized employees will issue or assign the pepper ball launcher, a sling, and appropriate ammunition.

Handguns

When issuing a handgun, authorized employees will issue the handgun, a holster that can be attached to a duty belt, three or four magazines, a magazine carrier that can be attached to a duty belt or load bearing vest, and ammunition sufficient to fill all magazines to capacity plus a round to be stored in the chamber of the handgun. Officers will decide if they wish to carry three or four magazines. Officers will not carry personally owned magazines for use in a department owned handgun.

Shotguns

When issuing a shotgun, authorized employees will issue the shotgun, a carrying mechanism for ammunition that can be attached to the shotgun or a load bearing vest, and enough ammunition to load the magazine and extra ammunition mechanism to full capacity.

Rifles

When issuing a rifle, authorized employees will issue the rifle, a rifle sling, a carrying case, four thirty-round magazines, two magazine pouches that can be attached to a load bearing vest, and 112 rounds of ammunition.

Inventory Control

An inventory of all authorized weapons will be maintained in the IMS. A record for each weapon will include the following information, as applicable:

• Serial number or a unique identifier,
• Manufacturer,
• Model number,
• Current location or name of the employee to which the weapon is issued or assigned, and
• Duty status of the weapon.

Review, Inspection and Approval by a Certified Weapons Instructor or Armorer of all Authorized Weapons Prior to Use (7.2.3 b)

Inspections

Authorized employees will be responsible for the inspection of all IUPD weapons before they are issued. An inspection record will be created within in the IMS for each inspection performed. Each inspection record will contain the:

• Serial number or a unique identifier of the inspected weapon, if applicable,
• Name of the authorized employee completing the inspection,
• Results of each element inspected, and
• Duty status of the weapon after the inspection.

Modifications

All firearm modifications must be made by an armorer. The armorer may issue the officer a replacement firearm while modifications are being made. ECW grip texture modification must be made by an authorized employee.

The following modifications are authorized and do not require a new demonstration of proficiency, as specified in G7.2.4 Weapons Proficiency prior to carrying the weapon:

• Handgun rail mounted flashlight and grip texture.
• Rifle grips and grip texture, handguards, and stocks.
• ECW grip texture

Only the following red dot sight (RDS) optics are authorized for handguns. A new demonstration of proficiency with the handgun, as specified in G7.2.4 Weapons Proficiency is required prior to carrying the handgun with RDS optics on or off duty:

• Holosun 509T
• Holosun 507 CX2
• Holosun 507 KX2