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n. (context US law enforcement English) A division of a law enforcement agency investigating incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.
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The internal affairs ( United States terminology) refers to a division of a law enforcement agency that investigates incidents and Possible suspicions of law-breaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force. Internal affairs can also refer to cases of misconduct and criminal behavior involving police officers. In different systems, internal affairs can go by other names such as "Internal Investigations Division" (usually referred to as 'IID'), "professional standards," " inspectorate general", Office of Professional Responsibility or similar. Due to the sensitive nature of this responsibility, in many departments, officers employed in an internal affairs unit are not in a detective command, but report directly to the agency's chief, or to a board of civilian police commissioners.
Internal Affairs investigators are bound by stringent rules when conducting their investigations. In California, the Peace Officers Bill of Rights (POBR) is a mandated set of rules found in the Government Code.
Internal affairs may refer to:
- Internal affairs of a State
- Internal affairs (law enforcement), a division of a law enforcement agency which investigates cases of lawbreaking by members of that agency
- Ministry of Internal Affairs, a department of government, used by many countries for a national agency with jurisdiction in domestic issues
- Internal affairs doctrine, a choice of law rule in corporations law
- Internal Affairs (1988 film), a made for television two part miniseries starring Richard Crenna as detective Frank Janek
- Internal Affairs (film), a 1990 movie starring Richard Gere and Andy Garcia set in the Internal Affairs Division of the Los Angeles Police Department
- Internal Affairs (album), the debut album of rapper Pharoahe Monch
- Internal Affairs (Family Guy), a 2012 episode in season 10 of Family Guy
- Internal Affairs (T.U.F.F. Puppy), an episode of T.U.F.F. Puppy
- Internal Affairs, An episode of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Internal Affairs is the solo debut from former Organized Konfusion member Pharoahe Monch, released on Rawkus Records and Priority Records. Monch creates a harder sound than heard on the previous Organized Konfusion records. The album spawned the Hot 100 hit "Simon Says".
The album is out of print because of Pharoahe Monch's refusal to record for the Geffen Records label after Universal Music Group acquired Rawkus Records from Priority. Rawkus, as well as its then-parent label MCA Records, were later folded by the Universal Music Group into Geffen Records.
Internal Affairs is a 1990 American crime thriller film set in Los Angeles about the police department's Internal Affairs Division.
Directed by Mike Figgis, the film stars Richard Gere as Dennis Peck, a suave womanizer, clever manipulator, and crooked cop who uses his fellow officers as pawns for his own nefarious purposes while showing a tender side as a devoted father. Andy García plays Raymond Avilla, the Internal Affairs agent who becomes obsessed with catching Peck when he suspects that Peck is not the poster boy police officer that the precinct has made him out to be.
"Internal Affairs" is the twenty-third episode and season finale of the tenth season of Family Guy. It originally aired on May 20, 2012, along with its preceding episode, " Family Guy Viewer Mail #2". In this episode, Peter and Quagmire encourage Joe to have a one-night stand with his attractive new partner to even the score with Bonnie for her own indiscretions. However, when Bonnie finds out and threatens divorce, Lois insists that Peter get them back together. Meanwhile, Peter has another run-in with Ernie the Giant Chicken, making for yet another epic fight. This episode serves as a sequel to " Foreign Affairs".
The episode was written by Wellesley Wild, and directed by Julius Wu. It received mixed reviews for its storyline and cultural references. It guest-starred Scott Grimes as Kevin Swanson, Anna Kendrick as Nora, Christine Lakin as Joyce Kinney, Rachael MacFarlane as Woman, and Patrick Stewart as Susie Swanson.
Internal Affairs is the first studio album by Swedish classic rock/ AOR band The Night Flight Orchestra, released on 18 June 2012 via Coroner Records.
Usage examples of "internal affairs".
Sergeant Mike Carlson, Homicide unit, Minneapolis Police Department,Commander Thomas Keding, Internal Affairs, St.
Without the northern no-fly zone, and with the United States explicitly forswearing interference in Iraq's internal affairs, the Kurds would have no friends but the mountains, as their traditional saying bemoans.
Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition offers, of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy.
You are going to find your own ass being investigated by Internal Affairs.
The MVD, or Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted most government intelligence, counterintelligence, and national police activities inside the Russian Federation.
I only mention it in order to say: believe nothing, or next to nothing, of what you read about internal affairs on the Government side.
Unless there was clear evidence of treasonable activityas defined by the Concordiat under the provisions Jefferson's treaty-sanctioned charterSimon was not authorized to intervene in a planet's internal affairs.
If every cop was as hard-line straight as you, we wouldn't need Internal Affairs.