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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="3-514" title_number="3" title_name="Law Enforcement" subtitle_number="5">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each law enforcement agency shall require a police officer who was involved in a use of force incident in the line of duty to file an incident report regarding the use of force by the end of the officer’s shift unless the officer is disabled.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The incident report required under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the type of encounter;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the type of force used;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the location of the incident where force was used;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>whether the individual against whom force was used was arrested;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>what charges, if any, for which the individual against whom force was used was arrested;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>whether the individual against whom force was used requested or required medical care;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>whether the law enforcement officer requested or required medical care; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>demographic information about any individuals against whom force was used and any law enforcement officer involved in the incident, including race, ethnicity, gender, and age.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before July 1, 2023, and July 1 each year thereafter, each law enforcement agency shall submit to the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission the aggregate data of police officers’ use of force reported in accordance with subsection (a) of this section for the previous calendar year, aggregated by numbers of complaints administratively charged, not charged, unfounded, and exonerated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On or before July 15 each year, the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission shall post on its website and submit to the General Assembly, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, a compendium of the information submitted by law enforcement agencies under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a law enforcement agency has not submitted the report required under paragraph (1) of this subsection by July 1 for the previous calendar year, the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy may not make any grant funds available to that law enforcement agency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
