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As a lieutenant you are stepping into management, albeit in many agencies, mid-management. The biggest shift is in the area of administrative tasks for which you will be responsible. In order to be responsible for such tasks, you should know the rules surrounding those tasks. You do not have to read too many articles on police discipline to find instances in which the discipline was overturned. Too often this happens for technical errors made at some point in the disciplinary process. Such errors are not only embarrassing, they are also problematic with regards to morale and performance. Discipline is designed to be a tool to assure professionalism and accountability. When it is not working right, both of those areas may suffer. As a lieutenant candidate you should know the three prominent rules pertaining to discipline, commonly referred to as Weingarten, Garrity, and Loudermill.
