You honestly believe that if a federal agent discharges his firearm while on duty at a suspect, that there is no requirement for him to submit anything in writing???? I know there are plenty of LEOs on FR, can anyone of you confirm that in your jurisdiction, officers are allowed to discharge their firearms while on duty, not at the shooting range, and not have to make a report of the incident????? If true, it seems a little fast and loose for me.
There has been adequate corroberation of the fact that written reports are discouraged for the border patrol agents.
The agents circumvented this by filing their own reports without mentioning the shooting, and not verbally telling the supervisor about the shooting.
Their defense is that they figured the supervisor already knew. I have no idea what there defense is for filing a report when they were required to brief the supervisor and have HIM file the report.
The pro-BP people claimed that this rule exonerated the agents for "not filing a report mentioning the shooting". My guess is they will now argue there was no report filed at all.
That apparently not only is SOP for the BP, the field agents are expressly ordered not to file written reports. They are required to verbally report to their supervisors, and the supervisors are to file written reports. I believe Sara Carter reported this.
>>You honestly believe that if a federal agent discharges his firearm while on duty at a suspect, that there is no requirement for him to submit anything in writing????
Yep. Read the Firearms Policy yourself. It's all there.
http://www.nbpc.net/Miscellaneous/firearms.pdf