Tullahoma Police Department Adopts Anti-Profiling Policy

The Tullahoma Police Department (TPD) has adopted an anti-racial profiling policy, as mandated by the State of Tennessee.
Senate Bill No. 6, known as the Racial Profiling Prevention Act, will be effective Jan. 1.
The Racial Profiling Prevention Act states that each law enforcement agency shall adopt a written policy that prohibits racial profiling by its employees. Each agency shall adopt its written policy on or before Jan. 1.
The standard operating procedures document states that racial profiling means the detention or interdiction of an individual in traffic contacts, field contacts, or assert seizure and forfeiture effort solely on the basis of the individual’s actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity or national origin.
The document states that racial profiling is not, however, circumstances in which the officer has information that includes a racial or ethnic descriptor concerning a suspect for a specific crime where that information is reliable and is likely to lead to the discovery of that individual.
According to the SOP document, citizens will only be stopped or detained when there exists ‘reasonable suspicion to believe they have committed, are committing, or about to commit, an infraction of the law. (Tullahoma News)