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Police Psychological Services Section Police Psychological Services Section
Governing Document

Section 1: Mission and Vision

The Police Psychological Services Section of the IACP offers psychological solutions to
the problems faced by police agencies in the areas of personnel assessment, individual as
well as organizational intervention, consultation and operational assistance. The Section
acts as a resource to the Association on psychologically-related issues. In order to
promote ethical and empirically based practices, the section provides education and
training opportunities as well as guidelines covering a variety of topics.

Section 2: Membership

Membership in this section shall be open to all active, life, and associate members of this
Association in good standing who are now, or have been engaged in or responsible for,
providing psychological services to law enforcement agencies, and have the approval of
their agency chief executive. Only psychologists with an unrestricted license as defined
by licensing requirements in the applicant's state or country, or persons with the highest
terminal degree in psychology required in the applicants country and who conduct police
psychological services in a setting, or of a type, exempt from licensing requirements in
the applicants state or country, will be considered for membership. Current members of
the section, as of February 10, 1996, with other license/certification status are exempt
from this requirement. All section members will have the full privileges of voting and
holding office in this section.

(a)
The Executive Committee, Executive Director, and staff liaison shall be ex-officio
members of this section, unless such individuals qualify as regular section
members.

(b) Membership applications shall be submitted to the Executive Director of the
IACP for processing of Association membership. Approved applications will be
sent to the section Secretary-Treasurer and forwarded on to the Section
Membership Chair for the processing and determination of section qualifications.
The Membership chair will review all applications for compliance with section
requirements and provide the Section Board with a spreadsheet addressing the
required components including the provision of a recommendation to either
approve or not approve the application. The Board will have five calendar days to
review the application. Hearing no dissent, the Membership Chairs
recommendation will stand and the applicant notified of their status. In the event
that any member of the Board has any questions concerning the qualifications of
an applicant for section membership which can not be resolved between the
Membership Chair and the Board member, the full and complete application shall
be submitted to the entire Section Board for review and approval. Such an
Page 1 of 6 application shall require an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the entire Section
Board for approval.

Section 3: Resolutions

Resolutions favorably voted on by the section at its annual meeting, and which are of
mutual interest to the IACP, shall be submitted for approval to the Executive Committee,
Board of Officers, or Executive Director, if in accord with approved Association policy.

Section 4: Organization and Administration

(a)
The annual section meeting shall be the governing authority of the section within
the delegated authority of the IACP. The annual section meeting shall be held as
an integral part of the Associations annual meeting, and coordinated well in
advance with the IACP Executive Director.

(b)
The Section Board shall be the governing authority of the section between the
annual meetings. Its actions are subject to reversal or approval at the next
succeeding annual section meeting. The Section Board will be composed of the
section General Chair, General Vice Chair, the Secretary-Treasurer, the
Immediate Past General Chair, and two Officers-at-Large serving as Membership
Chair and Education Chair. The General Chair will be chair of this board.

(c)
General Officers and Duties.

(1)
The General Chair shall be the presiding officer at all section meetings;
represent the section in all official matters; appoint all officers not elected,
standing and special committees and fill all vacancies for the remainder of
a term of office; supervise all committees, prepare an annual report and
present to the IACP Executive Committee all proposals recommended for
passage at the prior conference.. In the event of the absence or incapacity
of the General Chair, the General Vice Chair shall become General Chair
immediately and shall serve the remainder of the term of the immediate
predecessor and shall also serve a full term as General Chair beginning at
the next Annual Conference. The reminder of the term of the General
Vice Chair so vacated shall be left unfilled if it is no longer than three
months from the next Annual Conference. If the vacancy period will be
greater than three months, the General Chair shall designate a member of
the Section to serve as Interim General Vice Chair. This Interim
Appointment shall be exempt from the process of succession described
below for members of the Section Board.

(2)
The General Vice Chair shall assist, advice, and consult with the General
Chair. The General Vice-Chair will prepare a consolidated annual report
of those present and voting at the annual meeting.

Page 2 of 6 (3)
The Secretary-Treasurer shall be the designated Association staff officer
appointed as Section Staff Advisor and will prepare, transmit, or maintain
such section correspondence, reports, records, files, rosters, moneys, and
perform such related duties as may be designated or assigned by proper
authority.

(4)
The Section Board shall consist of the Immediate Past Chair, General
Chair, Vice General Chair, Membership Chair, Education Chair, and
Secretary-Treasurer. All officers, with the exception of the Treasurer who
serves as an IACP staff liaison, will serve one-year terms and move
through the positions in succession beginning with the Education Chair
and proceeding, in order, to Membership Chair, General Vice Chair,
General Chair, and Immediate Past Chair, unless recalled according to the
Section rules.

As the entry-level position to the Section Board, the position of Education
Chair will be open to all Section members. The position of Education
Chair will be elected annually by a majority of those present at the annual
meeting. Section members may nominate themselves or others; however,
all nominees must be present to accept the nomination.

The Education Chair has primary responsibility for all facets of the
Section Program at the Annual Conference, as well as other duties as
assigned by the General Chair and will hold dual titles as both Education
Chair and Annual Conference Program Committee Chair. To assist in this
latter role, a standing Annual Conference Program Committee will assist
as needed. Members volunteering for this committee will serve two-year
terms with half the committee members replaced each year to maintain
continuity and institutional knowledge. The Education Chair will fill all
vacant positions, making every reasonable effort to maintain a committee
reflective in its diversity of the larger organization. The Annual
Conference Program Committee will have a maximum of eight members.
The Education Chair will select a Vice Chair of the Annual Conference
Program Committee from among the eight standing committee members.
The specific role and function of the Vice Chair, as well as the standing
committee members, will be at the discretion of the Education Chair.

Nominees for Education Chair will be provided a two-minute opportunity
during the annual section meeting to express their interest and
qualifications to the general membership prior to the election, after which
Section members will vote by ballot for one of the candidates. The
Immediate Past Chair and the Secretary-Treasurer will then count the
votes and report the results. In the event of a tie, a runoff vote will
immediately occur.

Page 3 of 6 With the exception of the position of General Vice Chair becoming
vacated because that Board member succeeded to the position of General
Chair on the incapacity of the immediately preceding General Chair, the
process for which is described above, should a member of the Board be
unable for any reason to complete his/her term, the General Chair will
appoint a Section Member as Interim Board Member to complete the
remainder of that term. This Interim Appointment shall be exempt from
the process of succession described above. The same shall apply in the
event that a Board Member is recalled.

(d)
Procedure for Recall of a Board Member by the Section Membership. If one third
of the Section members sign and submit a petition to recall a Board Member, the
Immediate Past Chair shall have a special recall ballot prepared on which the
section membership shall indicate their decision to remove or not remove the
named Board Member. This vote shall take place at the Annual Meeting before
any other election to the Board is made. It shall require a vote of two-thirds of the
members present and voting to remove a Board Memb