13.4 Firearms Safety and Storage

Chapter 13
Section 4
Subject Firearms Safety and Storage
Effective Date 6/25/2024 12:00 AM

  1. Only Probation Department owned firearms will be stored in the exterior storage room.

  2. The firearms will remain locked in the department approved firearm safes until they are needed for training, transport, or inspection purposes.

  3. The Chief Deputy Probation Officer of the Custody Division and any Range Master will have access to the firearm safes.  

  4. Within the Juvenile Hall storage room there will be an exterior security cage which will house lockers and firearm safes.

  5. The Chief Deputy Probation Officer of the Custody Division or a Supervising Deputy Probation Officer assigned to the Juvenile Hall will allow the armed Juvenile Services Officer into the security cage to retrieve the department issued firearm. 

  6. The firearm shall only be retrieved for training, transports, or inspection purposes; Or at the direction of the Chief Deputy Probation Officer of the Custody Division, Senior Range Master or a Supervising Deputy Probation Officer assigned to the Juvenile Hall. 

  7. After the firearms training, transport, or inspection, the equipment shall be returned to the department approved firearms safe after.  

  8. All weapons must be returned unloaded, with the magazine removed and the slide locked back.

  9. Officers authorized to carry firearms are not authorized to keep the firearm overnight at the officers residence, unless prior approval from the Chief Deputy of the Custody Division, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, or Chief Probation Officer.

  10. Firearms shall be handled in a safe manner at all times. 

  11. Officers are required to use a receptacle for loading, unloading, or inspecting a firearm while in a Probation Department building or on the grounds of a Probation Department facility.