Applicable To: All employees

Approval Authority:  Major Darryl K. Tolleson

Signature:  Signed by DKT

Date Signed:  8/17/2004

1.               PURPOSE

The purpose of this section command memorandum is to establish procedures to ensure a more secure environment for the airport police precinct.

2.               POLICY

It is the policy of the City of Atlanta Police Department Airport Section that its facilities, equipment and personnel therein remain as secure as possible to prevent the intrusion of unauthorized individuals.

3.               RESPONSIBILITIES

3.1              It is the responsibility of the watch commander to insure compliance with this section command memorandum.

3.2              It is the responsibility of the employee assigned to the front desk (reception area) to allow only authorized individual(s) admittance into the interior of the precinct.

3.3              It is the responsibility of each employee to maintain the security of the police precinct. This is to include the latching of locked doors as they leave or enter the precinct and challenge unauthorized individual(s) within the precinct.

4.               ACTION

4.1              The door in the reception area which leads back into the roll call room, break area, office area of the precinct will remain locked at all times.

4.2              Only authorized individual(s) will be allowed unescorted access to the precinct.  All others must be escorted.

4.3              Persons must wait in the front office reception area until the individual they are to see escorts him or her back into the office area of the precinct.

5.               DEFINITIONS

5.1              Authorized Individual(s): Law Enforcement Officers, individuals employed at the airport police section, maintenance personnel, custodial personnel, anyone authorized by the section commander or watch supervisor.

6.               CANCELLATION

AS.CM.00.014, “Security of the Airport Police Section Precinct.”

7.               REFERENCES

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