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Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

Article 20 – Personnel Policies

Revised November 20, 2013

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33010.28.6 Other Benefits

  • GCGovernment Code 13959 through 13969.1 provides benefits and assistance to victims who sustain injuries or death as a result of a crime or violence.

  • GCGovernment Code 13970 through 13974 provides benefits to private citizens who incur injury, death, or property damage under the following circumstances:

    • In the course of preventing the commission of a crime against another person or property.

    • In apprehending a criminal.

    • In assisting a peace officer in his/her duties.

    • In rescuing a person in immediate danger.

  • Further information relative to these indemnities may be obtained from the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.