Police Pdf's. of manuals, General Orders and Protocols of the Richmond, VA. police department offers insight into how police departments operate.
Here are links to PDFs of various Manuals, General Orders, and Protocols of the Richmond Police Department. You can check them out for a better understanding of what the police are and are not supposed to be doing. This can help with fully understanding your rights, as well as when engaged in activities such as copwatching. It is important for citizens to know when cops are breaking their own rules so we can hold them accountable.
Attorneys for the recipient of police documents obtained through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act report that the city of Richmond, Va., and its police chief intend to drop their court case seeking the return of the produced documents.
The ACLU of Virginia's website reports that attorneys for the police no longer intend to pursue the case. However, Telfair could not be reached to confirm this, and a hearing on the city and police chief's emergency motion remains on the court calendar for Jan. 24.
Links: http://wingnutrva.org/richmond-police-department-documents/
Lawsuit dropped:
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11674