(a) The commission shall have all powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate its purposes, including, but not limited to, the power to:

1. (1) act as the primary civil enforcement agency for violations of this chapter;
2. (2) establish, jointly with the municipal police training committee established in section 116 of chapter 6, minimum officer certification standards pursuant to section 4;
3. (3) certify qualified applicants;
4. (4) deny an application or limit, condition, restrict, revoke or suspend a certification, or fine a person certified for any cause that the commission deems reasonable;
5. (5) receive complaints from any source and preserve all complaints and reports filed with the commission for the appropriate period of time;
6. (6) establish, in consultation with the municipal police training committee established in section 116 of chapter 6, minimum agency certification standards pursuant to section 5;
7. (7) certify qualified agencies;
8. (8) withhold, suspend or revoke certification of agencies;
9. (9) conduct audits and investigations pursuant to section 8;
10. (10) appoint officers and approve employees to be hired by the executive director;
11. (11) establish and amend a plan of organization that it considers expedient;
12. (12) execute all instruments necessary or convenient for accomplishing the purposes of this chapter;
13. (13) enter into agreements or other transactions with a person, including, but not limited to, a public entity or other governmental instrumentality or authority in connection with its powers and duties under this chapter;
14. (14) appear on its own behalf before boards, commissions, departments or other agencies of municipal, state or federal government;
15. (15) apply for and accept subventions, grants, loans, advances and contributions of money, property, labor or other things of value from any source, to be held, used and applied for its purposes;
16. (16) provide and pay for advisory services and technical assistance as may be necessary in its judgment to carry out this chapter and fix the compensation of persons providing such services or assistance;
17. (17) prepare, publish and distribute, with or without charge as the commission may determine, such studies, reports, bulletins and other materials as the commission considers appropriate;
18. (18) gather facts and information applicable to the commission's obligation to issue, suspend or revoke certifications for:

(28) adopt, amend or repeal regulations in accordance with chapter 30A for the implementation, administration and enforcement of this chapter, including, but not limited to, regulations:

1. (i) governing the conduct of proceedings hereunder;
2. (ii) determining whether an applicant has met the standards for certification;
3. (iii) establishing minimum standards for internal agency review of complaints of officer-involved injuries or deaths and recommendations to the commission regarding retraining, suspension or revocation of officer certification to ensure consistency across agencies;

4. (iv) establishing a physical and psychological fitness evaluation pursuant to section 4 that measures said fitness to ensure officers are able to perform essential job duties; and (v) identifying patterns of unprofessional police conduct, including, but not limited to, patterns of:

   1. (A) escalating behavior that may lead to the use of excessive force or conduct that is biased on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, mental or physical disability, immigration status or socioeconomic or professional level;
   2. (B) an increase in the frequency of complaints regarding an individual officer or agency; or (C) the number of complaints regarding an officer or agency that are at least 1 standard deviation above the mean for similarly situated officers or agencies for a defined period; and