Editor’s note: This series of articles is intended to be used as quick topic discussions at the beginning of any meeting. They are meant to create discussion among your teams and to get your officers thinking on their feet about training topics, in order to encourage learning and training.
Who taught you?
- Right from wrong
- Courage
- Compassion
- Character
Childhood lessons from your father, mother or coach?
Just because we have you sign a piece of paper labeled ‘ethics’ doesn’t change your inner compass. You still believe all the same things that you have for your entire life. The ‘ethics’ document is about setting our expectations up in a way you can know them and modify your internal compass of right and wrong to meet those expectations and further your continued employment.
That said, you are a supervisor of people:
Consistent: your actions must match your words.
Be the behavior model: For other deputies and then for detainees
Be the appearance model: For Deputies and then detainees
Demonstrate the respect you have for yourself with your appearance, words that come out of your mouth, behavior and actions.
Good things will come your way.
