Oxnard Police Department

OPD raises a pragmatic but important point about the interrelationship between Recommendations 2 and 3 in this report. If protocols are modified so that an interview account of the incident is obtained from the involved officers the night of the incident, transcripts of any audio capture of the incident would not be available to use during the officers' interviews. In order to overcome these practical impediments, best practices teach that detectives briefly review any audio or video capture of the circumstances leading up to the incident and the incident itself and then interview the involved officers based on that review as well as any other information developed during the first few hours of the investigation.