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Updated comprehensive written model policy on the use of force, including deadly force, by peace officers. The model policy must: recognize and respect the sanctity and value of all human life and the need to treat everyone with dignity and without prejudice; include a duty for peace officers to intercede when present and observing another peace officer using force that is clearly beyond what is objectively reasonable under the law and the particular circumstances of the case, and in a position to do so; include a duty for peace officers to report any illegal use of force by another peace officer to the officer's chief law enforcement officer; and include a duty for peace officers to only use deadly force including techniques that are restricted by Minn. Stat. 609.06 Subd. 3, as authorized in Minn. Stat. 609.066. However, even in those circumstances, the policy must require that less lethal measures be considered first by the officer.
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In consultation with interested parties.
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