Then why not beef up such groups, and give them authority to discipline individual officers?

This would be a deterrent for future misconduct and a wake-up call to discipline bad officers.

Sometime thereafter, he was made the discipline officer of the Shuofang army.

Wardens and other supervisors will decide how to discipline officers who violate lesser regulations, he said.

The panels would be completely independent of the police and would have broad authority to discipline officers.

It is empowered to make appoint, remove, or discipline officers of the police force and the prisons service.

At some point, he became the discipline officer in the Right Shence Army.

But the ultimate decision to discipline officers is made by police officials, to whom the board forwards its cases.

Meng himself was thereafter made the discipline officer at Hedong.

And the department is threatened with federal oversight because of a finding that it does not adequately discipline officers who use excessive force.