a. To provide policies and procedures for processing and investigating citizen complaints regarding alleged police misconduct.

b. To provide civilian review of the investigations of alleged police misconduct undertaken by the City of Muskegon including investigations conducted by the “Internal Investigations Unit” of the Muskegon Police Department.

c. To ensure the integrity of investigations of police misconduct and to thereby enhance community confidence in the Muskegon Police Department.

d. To encourage compliance with rules and regulations concerning police officers’ conduct during interactions with citizens.

e. To encourage people who believe they have been mistreated by police officers to use the Internal Affairs system to have that officer’s conduct reviewed.

f. To create a process that fairly and evenhandedly evaluates and judges the conduct of everyone involved to determine whether or not a breach of departmental rules and regulations has occurred.

g. To afford the community a sense of confidence that the community itself is involved as necessary in reviewing the activities of its police officers; and to maintain high morale and good disciplinary practices within the police department.