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Policy Central

An open-source agent for writing and reviewing policy documents. Ask it to check a manual, adapt or revise a policy, or draft a new one. It finds clauses that conflict with or repeat your other policies, and the clauses a change affects. Each finding quotes both clauses, and each change waits for your approval.

A check, start to finish. A public police directives manual with tracked edits, checked from upload to tracked changes.

It is for anyone who keeps a body of rules consistent: police policy and accreditation managers first, and the policy offices of cities, counties, agencies and universities. What it finds are suggestions for a person to check, not conclusions.

Works with: Word documents · PDFs, including scans · web pages · web search.

The beta is by invitationEach person gets their own link; nothing to install and no account. Write to support@policinglab.org for one.

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Who it is for

Ten people, ten checks. Pick one to see their situation, what they would type, and what comes back. The documents named are public.

Choose a person

1 of 10

Policy unit lead: the law changes overnight

SITUATION
In September 2025 a Florida appeals court struck down the state’s open-carry ban (F.S. 790.053), and open carry became legal statewide within weeks. The court’s opinion and the police chiefs’ association’s summary of the Attorney General’s guidance, against a department’s policies on stops, weapons and courthouse security.
THEY ASK
“Open carry became legal in Florida in September 2025. Which of our policies need updating, and what should they say?”
THEY GET
A plain answer: no policy depends on open carry being illegal. One line worth adding, to the courthouse weapons rule, naming the places guns stay banned (F.S. 790.06(12)), tracked in Word.

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Accreditation manager: before an accreditation visit

SITUATION
The assessors are coming. The Florida accreditation standards (CFA) against the agency’s policies.
THEY ASK
“Which standards don’t our policies cover?”
THEY GET
Every standard marked covered, partly or not found, with quotes, and a crosswalk to download.

3 of 10

Special events planner: a big event is coming

SITUATION
The 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, a Super Bowl or Mardi Gras. The Justice Department’s planning checklist for large events against the fire department’s special-event rules and the police department’s crowd policy, each in its own vocabulary.
THEY ASK
“Our big event is 90 days away. What does our plan not cover yet from the planning checklist, and what should we sort out first?”
THEY GET
A run-up list: the checklist items neither plan covers yet, most urgent first, with each plan’s own words quoted.

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Emergency manager: before hurricane season

SITUATION
Hurricane season starts on 1 June. Florida’s Emergency Management Act (ch. 252) and the state law-enforcement annex against Orlando PD’s emergency operations plan.
THEY ASK
“Does our hurricane plan cover what state law expects of us?”
THEY GET
Each duty marked covered or not found, with the law and the plan quoted.

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Legal advisor: after a court settlement

SITUATION
A settlement sets what the policies must say. The Minneapolis settlement agreement (2023) against the police manual’s use-of-force chapter.
THEY ASK
“Which paragraphs on crowd control and force don’t our policies meet?”
THEY GET
Every paragraph marked covered, partly or not found, with quotes, and a crosswalk to download.

6 of 10

Chief: the first 100 days

SITUATION
A new chief wants to know what the manual really says. From a real manual: children 12 and under are not handcuffed, against a rule that every prisoner is.
THEY ASK
“Where does our manual contradict itself?”
THEY GET
Each conflict, with both clauses side by side.

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Neighboring agencies: a pursuit crosses the line

SITUATION
Officers from two agencies end up in the same pursuit. Orlando PD’s and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s vehicle pursuit policies (both 2026).
THEY ASK
“Where would an Orlando officer and a deputy act differently?”
THEY GET
The differences that matter, with both policies quoted.

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Training lead: after a policy change

SITUATION
The policy changed; the lesson plans may not have. Sacramento PD’s use-of-force training against the final policy.
THEY ASK
“Where does our training still teach the old rule?”
THEY GET
Each outdated passage, with the current rule beside it.

9 of 10

Oversight board or monitor: a monitor’s report

SITUATION
A report says what should change. The NOPD monitor’s final report (2025) against current policies.
THEY ASK
“Which findings do our policies address?”
THEY GET
Each finding marked addressed or not found, with the policy quoted. One table both sides can read.

10 of 10

HR director: beyond policing Illustrative

SITUATION
State employment laws change too. A city personnel manual against Florida employment laws: domestic violence leave, E-Verify, minors’ hours.
THEY ASK
“What in our manual no longer matches the law?”
THEY GET
Tracked changes, with the law quoted.

Free during the beta

Free during the beta. Your workspace is temporary and is deleted after an hour without use.

Privacy

Kept
What you type, your accept and reject choices, your feedback, the organisation and role you give if you choose to, and for uploads the title, the page count and the findings’ one-line summaries.
Not kept
Document text, full quotes, your address. There are no accounts. Uploads are deleted with the workspace, after an hour without use.

The app runs in The Policing Lab’s own AWS account; pairs of clauses go to the ranking model through OpenRouter. Don’t upload confidential drafts.

Open source

The code will be published under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Run it on your own machine with your own model keys, or read how it works.

Research

Who made it

Policy Central is made by The Policing Lab, a nonprofit in Miami that works with police departments on data and policy.

Feedback and contact

There is a feedback button inside the app. For anything else, write to support@policinglab.org.