Marathon County Public Library

ITEM NUMBER: 7.58

CHAPTER 7: Administrative

Management

CODE: Procedure

COMPUTER ID: AMPRO-58



Title: Police Assistance

Effective Date: 11-24-86

Authorized By: Library Director

Date of Last Revision: 1-2012



Police assistance will normally be sought by library staff in the following situations:



1. When customers display irrational behavior which can be perceived as a

public disturbance or as a threat to the safety of the staff or other customers,

or may cause injury to the person herself/himself.



Examples of such behavior may include, among others, laughing

hysterically; loud, abusive violent talking; threats; reclining on the floor

in a fetal position; indecent exposure; indecent sexual advances.



2. When customers request police assistance, this may be as a result of an

accident in the street, a mugging in the park or the parking ramp, or as a

result of a suspected crime committed on the premises such as theft, or

indecent exposure.



3. When staff or customer sustain injury or experience life threatening illness,

police and/or medical assistance in the form of an ambulance may be

requested in the case of a staff or customer injury or life threatening illness.

Examples of such occurrences may include, among others, severe fall, loss

of a limb, electrical shock, heart attack, stroke, un-determined loss of

consciousness, or severe cut.



Whenever the police are called to the library either by staff or the public to

attend to a call within the library premises, the Library Director must receive a

written report, signed and dated by the staff person(s) involved with the

incident, either the same day immediately after it happens, or if in the

evening, by 8:30 AM the next day.