OPS 1402 Security of Prisoners in Hospital Situations
Purpose
To establish a standardized model law enforcement policy related to the security of in-custody persons in hospitals and other non-secure public areas while ensuring the safety of hospital personnel, the general public, and involved law enforcement personnel. There is nothing in this policy that would prohibit any hospital from exercising their own policy requirement mandating that two deputies be assigned to guard a prisoner during an emergency clinical evaluation or a prisoner who has been admitted to their facility
Summary
It is the policy of the HCSO to provide measures by which prisoners, during emergency clinical evaluation or who have been admitted to a medical facility, can be guarded with minimal risk and inconvenience to all affected persons, while providing maximum safety to deputies, EMS personnel, hospital personnel, and the general public.
