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Cleveland is offering to pay jail costs for people arrested by private police forces around the city, but the proposal includes a few new requirements.
In letters dated Aug. 14 to police agencies run by Metrohealth, University Circle, Inc., Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, RTA, Tri-C, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, Cleveland schools, Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals, the city proposed new training requirements covering use of force, bias-free policing, police pursuit, and crisis intervention.
The agencies would also adopt the city’s use of force and police pursuit policies and each would have to establish a civilian board to hear complaints against the police.
Detainees must also be charged within 36 hours and no one charged with a fourth degree misdemeanor will be brought to jail.
Cleveland covered the cost of housing detainees from the 10 departments when the city ran its own jail. Now Cleveland sends detainees to the county jail at a cost of $99 a day per person.
The proposed requirements would take effect Dec. 1.
