| Sec. |
Offence |
Minimum Punishment |
Maximum Punishment |
|
Section 1 - AWOL |
| A) |
AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave)- Absent for more than six weeks without being on leave |
No minimum penalty. |
Termination from the WCC.
|
| B) |
Neglecting
Duties- Anyone who does not perform their required duties for a period
of two weeks and not being on leave; or being present but consistently
neglecting to perform required duties. |
No minimum penalty. |
Loss of position and two rank demotion. |
|
Section 2 - Justice |
| A) |
Obstructing
Justice- In any way interfering with the justice system's duties.
Includes, but is not limited to, discussing details of current case
with unauthorized personnel, attempting to create a hold-up in the
court process, intentionally prolonging proceedings or covering up
parts of information and failure to report in-unit or departmental
disciplinary actions. Conviction is automatic. Not to be confused with
the Major offence of Accessory. |
No minimum penalty. |
Three rank demotion. |
| B) |
Failure
to appear/Plead: Not giving a response or plea to charges laid against
yourself, or failing to appear to testify or give evidence should you
have been subpoenaed or otherwise required to appear before Justice.
Conviction on this charge is automatic, and is taken as a plea of
guilty to existing charges. |
One month promotion freeze. |
Three rank demotion and loss of position. |
| C) |
Failure
to comply with the Justice Department/court order - Any failure to do
what a court order or other request from the Justice Department says.
This includes, but not limited to, not testifying when subpoenaed or
otherwise requested to by Justice Department personnel, failure to tell
the whole truth while testifying, failure to abide by a court decision
(Not including appeals), failure to send in evidence or
cross-examination by requested date, or in general being disrespectful
to the court, failure to report in-unit or departmental disciplinary
actions after being asked for it. Conviction on this charge is
automatic. |
Three month promotion freeze. |
Three rank demotion and loss of position. |
| D) |
Perjury- Lying while under oath, testifying to a Justice Department Official or while giving evidence in a trial. |
One rank demotion. |
Three rank demotion and loss of position. |
| E) |
Contempt-
Any disrespect of the WCC court, its members or its proceedings,
including but not limited to rudeness, refusal to co-operate, talking
out of turn in proceedings, wasting the court's time and general poor
attitude towards regulations and proceedings. Conviction is automatic. |
One rank demotion. |
Three rank demotion and loss of position. |
|
Section 3 - Slander/Libel And Lying About Others For Personal Gain |
| A) |
Slander/Libel-
Purposefully saying, writing or typing bad or improper things about
another WCC member, unit, department or sub-department or the WCC that
are not true or phrased in such a way as to bring a person, unit,
department, sub-department or the WCC into disrepute. (Exceptions: If
the statements are truth, if the statements are said only to quote
someone else.). |
One month promotion freeze. |
Six rank demotion. |
| B) |
Spreading
False Information- Purposely lying about another member of the corps or
yourself for your own gain or to bring down another member of the
Corps, or to spread false information about a department or section of
the Web Cadet Corps. |
One month promotion freeze. |
Three Rank demotion. |
|
Section 4 - False Representation And Cheating |
| A) |
Plagiarism-
Passing off other people's work as your own. This includes copying from
books, copying from other people's work, published or unpublished,
copying from websites, or any other use of material not owned or
created by yourself. Changing a few words still counts as an offence.
This is exempt if proper reference to the author has been given;
however you cannot simply copy someone else's work and give them
reference unless quotations are used. |
Three month promotion freeze. |
Six rank demotion. |
| B) |
Cheating-
Obtaining by any method besides research the answers to a test, be it a
trade test, qualification, NCOC or OA test, rank test, feature or
other. This also covers supplying the answers to another WCC member, or
supplying an answer key to a person not authorized to view or possess
it. Any and all ranks, trades, qualifications, medals, etc. obtained by
this will automatically be revoked with no option of retaking the
removed items unless that test, trade or qualification is re-written. |
Three rank demotion. |
Dismissal from Corps. |
| C) |
Framing-
Attempting to make it appear that another member of the Corps committed
a crime, especially one that was committed by the person framing. |
Dismissal from Corps. |
Nothing is above Dismissal. |
|
Section 5 - Improper Conduct Of Personnel |
| A) |
Conduct
Unbecoming- When any personnel acts in a manner to bring shame to
themselves, or in any other manner improper to their job and position,
on any admissible form of communication of the WCC, be it official
Chat, Forum, email, or other. This includes general rudeness, anything
anyone might find disturbing, rude, insulting (Even if it was not
intended to be that way), posting or transmitting anything that anyone
finds inappropriate, uncomfortable or disturbing, going to one member
and telling them that a superior has told them one thing when the order
was actually the opposite. |
One rank demotion. |
Six rank demotion. |
| B) |
Abuse
of position - Any abuse of position to further your own needs or those
of your section, including but not limited to: Election fixing,
demanding subordinates do whatever you say even if unreasonable,
denying people requests without explaining why or because you do not
like the person; also includes overstepping bounds of the TOR, and
clear favouritism towards a certain person, unit or department. |
Three rank demotion and loss of abused position. |
Termination from the WCC.
|
| C) |
Abuse of Outside Rank- Any attempt to use a rank or position held in an organization, cadet, military or related, to
wield power over a WCC member. |
One rank demotion. |
Three rank demotion. |
| D) |
Blackmail-
Attempting to, threatening to, or actually saying or doing something
bad to another person in order to gain something for yourself. For
example: Threatening to tell the Corps that an officer harassed you or
called you a name in order to get a promotion. |
Two rank demotion. |
Six rank demotion. |
| E) |
Insubordination-
Refusal to obey an order given by a superior, or speaking to or
addressing a superior in an impolite, or rude manner, or attempting to
unlawfully order a superior officer. No qualifying phrases such as
"with all due respect" will negate this action. It is not
insubordination if the person has no authority to order you. |
One month promotion Freeze. |
Three rank demotion and loss of position. |
| F) |
Mutiny-
Any attempt, or successful, overthrow of ANY leader, not limited to the
Commandant. This also includes major tampering of the site to reflect a
person's wishes or desires, or aims. Minor tampering of the site is
addressed in Sec. 6 (B). |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
Nothing is above dismissal. |
| G) |
Conspiracy-
Being a main player in the planning of an offence, whether or not the
offence is ever carried out, to discuss committing an offence,
counselling someone on how to commit an offence or helping someone
gather the necessary things to commit an offence. |
Depending on the crime conspired to commit, punishments will be the minimum and maximum for that penalty. |
|
| H) |
Accessory-
Being a party to an offence, either by counselling someone in how to do
a crime (like advising), covering for a person that you know has
committed an offence, helping someone hide the offence, being aware of
an offence, with power to stop it and saying nothing to that effect,
and other similar actions. |
Depending on the crime conspired to commit, punishments will be the minimum and maximum for that penalty. |
|
| I) |
Impersonation-
Pretending to be another member of the Corps for personal gain, to
bring disrepute to the impersonated person, or for any other purpose,
using or declaring you are or have a rank that you are not, or a
position you do not hold, especially one of higher stature than you
actually have. This also includes joining the WCC with more than one
name to get recruiting medals or status, or to augment your unit
numbers. |
Three rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps |
| J) |
Uttering a Threat- Any threatening statement made by one WCC member to another, or to a group of members. |
Three rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps |
| K) |
Breach
Of Contract- A breach of official contract or promise. This does not
include anything done only over informal methods such as MSN or ICQ;
only official means of promise or contract such as email and public
forums. |
One rank demotion. |
Three Rank demotion. |
| L) |
Bribing- Offering a bribe, especially one otherwise not available to the person, in exchange for a
favour or other gain. |
Three rank demotion. |
Six Rank demotion. |
|
Section 6 - Computer/Electronic Offences |
| A) |
Virus Transfer- Knowingly transferring a virus to the server or to another Corps member, whether for your own purposes or not. |
Three rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps |
| B) |
Server
Violation- Sabotaging the WCC server in any way, unauthorized updating
of pages (changing something without permission of the proper
authorities), deleting anything from the server purposely, deleting
anything off the server, whether accidentally of purposely, which
causes harm to the Corps's ability to operate. |
Promotion freeze for double the regular time required. |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
| C) |
Hacking-
Any unauthorized accessing of another Corps member's computer, or
email, ICQ, or other messenger service, any tampering, changing or
altering in any way another Corps member's computer, or using of any
information found within such hacking. |
Five rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
| D) |
Spamming-
Any sending of inappropriate messages, advertisements, or other spam,
either to members of the corps or on any message boards, WCC,
Cadetworld, or other, via email, PM, public posting, instant messages
or other electronic means of communication, especially those which
would bring the WCC into disrepute. |
No minimum penalty. |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
| E) |
WCC
Copyrighted Material Theft- All materials on the WCC site is copyright
WCC; all submissions are property of their creator used by the WCC with
permission. Any outside use of any ranks, images of any kind, text, or
any other WCC item WITHOUT permission is an offence. |
Three rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
| F) |
Release
of Private Information - All information stored for use by the Web
Cadet Corps that is not publically available through the website is to
be considered private. Releasing this information to individuals, who
are not a part of the Corps, or to unauthorised members of the Corps is
an offence. |
Dismissal from the Corps and notification of civil authorities. |
There is nothing above dismissal. |
|
Section 7 - Hate and Discrimination |
| A) |
Discrimination-
Any act of discriminating in any way against another Corps member based
upon age, skin color, nationality, language spoken, sexual preference,
WCC unit, group affiliation, or other criteria not directly related to
performance within the Corps. |
Six rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
| B) |
Wilful
Promotion of Hate- Any distribution of hate propaganda, promoting
others to hate any person for the reasons outlined in Sec. 7 (A), or
displaying of offensive symbols. |
Six rank demotion. |
Dismissal from the Corps. |
| |
Section 8 - Harassment & Sexual Harassment |
| A) |
Harassment-
Conduct exhibited once or repeatedly, that offends, demeans, belittles
or humiliates another person and that the person exhibiting the conduct
knew or ought reasonable to have know would be unwelcome. This includes
calling a person names, constantly demanding something that they have
turned down (Not including requesting an explanation of circumstances),
making unwanted sexual comments, threatening in any way the job, safety
or life of another Corps member. No qualifying phrases such as "with
all due respect" will negate this action.
|
Three rank demotion |
Dismissal from the Corps |
| B) |
Sexual Harassment- Unwelcome sexual comments, advances, or requests for sexual
favours that humiliate, threaten, or embarrass the victim. |
Six rank demotion |
Dismissal from the Corps |
