AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Civil Liability of Law Enforcement Agencies
& Personnel
Off Duty/Color of Law: Supervisory Liability
Monthly Law Journal Article: Civil
Liability for Acts of Off-Duty Officers -- Part One, 2007 (9) AELE
Mo. L.J. 101.
Monthly Law Journal Article: Civil
Liability for Acts of Off-Duty Officers -- Part Two, 2007 (10) AELE
Mo. L.J. 101.
Monthly Law Journal Article: Civil
Liability for Use of Deadly Force-- Part Three. Supervisory Liability and
Negligent/Accidental Acts, 2008 (1) AELE Mo. L.J. 101.
Police chief had no
duty, as a supervisor, to control the off-duty actions of a police sergeant
which would make him liable for injuries that a police detective suffered
in an off-duty fight with the sergeant. While the chief had the ability
to impose disciplinary action for off-duty conduct, this did not impose
any "affirmative obligation" on him to enforce the code of conduct
in order to protect the detective. Murdock v. Croughwell, No. 16987, 848
A.2d 363 (Conn. 2004). [N/R]