Reporting incidents of excessive force — Contents of report — Failure to report or making materially false statements. A. Each law enforcement entity which employs any peace officer shall adopt policies or guidelines concerning the use of force by peace officers employed by the entity. B. Any peace officer, except a newly employed officer during such officer's probationary period, who, in pursuance of such officer's law enforcement duties, witnesses another peace officer, in pursuance of such other peace officer's law enforcement duties in carrying out an arrest of any person, placing any person under detention, taking any person into custody, booking any person, or in the process of crowd control or riot control, use physical force which exceeds the degree of physical force permitted by law or by the policies and guidelines of the law enforcement entity, shall report such use of excessive force to such officer's immediate supervisor. C. At a minimum, the report required by this section shall include: 1. The date, time, and place of the occurrence; 2. The identity, if known, and description of the participants; 3. A description of the events and the force used. D. A copy of an arrest report or other similar report required as a part of a peace officer's duties can be substituted for the report required by this section, as long as it includes the information specified in subsection C of this section. The report shall be made in writing within ten (10) days of the occurrence of the use of such force. E. Any peace officer who fails to report such use of excessive force in the manner prescribed in this section, or who knowingly makes a materially false statement which the officer does not believe to be true in any report made pursuant to this section, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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