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PARIS POLICE DEPARTMENT <br />POLICY AND PROCEDURES MANUAL <br />Subject: Policy Number: <br />Bias Based Profiling 2.01.01 <br />Effective Date: Distribution: All Employees Amended Date: <br />O1/31/2010 02/22/2011 <br />Review Date: TPCA BPRP Number: Page: <br />Annually 2.01.1 1 of 5 <br />SECTION 1 POLICY STATEMENT <br />It is the policy of the Paris Police Department to give equal treatment under the <br />law to all people, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, politics, national origin, <br />lifestyle, age, economic status or similar characteristics. The officers of the Paris <br />Police Department will only stop or detain citizens when reasonable suspicion to <br />believe they have committed, are committing, or are about to commit a violation <br />of the law, or for other lawful purposes. Officers of the Paris Police Department <br />are strictly prohibited from initiating any action that constitutes racial or biased- <br />based profiling. <br />SECTION 2 PURPOSE <br />The purpose of this policy is to give practical meaning by establishing procedures <br />to ensure that racial profiling, or other bias-based profiling, is not found in the <br />practices of the Department. <br />SECTION 3 DEFINITIONS <br />Race or Ethnicity — Of a particular decent, including Caucasian, African, <br />Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern or Native American. <br />Bias-based Profiling — The detention, interdiction, search or seizure of any <br />person based solely upon the person's age, gender, sexual orientation, race, <br />color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, or similar personal characteristic. <br />Racial Profiling — A law enforcement-initiated action based on an individual's <br />race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on the individual's behavior or on <br />information identifying the individual as having engaged in criminal activity. <br />Reasonable Suspicion — Specific facts and circumstances, and reasonable <br />inferences from those facts and circumstances, that would lead a p.erson of <br />reasonable prudence to believe that some type of criminal activity is afoot, and <br />the detainee(s) are somehow involved. <br />Motor Vehicle Stop — occurs when a peace officer stops a vehicle for an alleged <br />violation of a law or ordinance regulating traffic. <br />140 <br />