Editing Scientology ethics and justice (section)

=== Ethics officer (EO) ===
The ethics officer is a staff member in a Scientology organization whose job is to ensure that staff members and all scientologists are correctly following procedures. The EO works one-on-one with scientologists to help them with ethics issues. In the Sea Org, this is called the [[#MAA|Master-at-Arms]]. The ethics officer works in the Department of Inspection and Reports, handles all ethics and security matters, performs ethics interviews, does investigations, and follows up on ethics orders.{{r|headley|pages=352,359}}{{r|hubbard-admindict|page=180}}

An ethics officer is expected to have ''ethics presence'' over all staff and public scientologists — likewise a senior over their juniors, and any Sea Org member over any other scientologist. Ethics presence is a person's quality of authority or command value, a combination of poise, attitude, effectiveness and enforcement. Per Hubbard, "ethics presence is an 'X' quality made up partly of symbology, partly of force, some 'now we're supposed to's' and endurance" and "as an executive you get compliance because you have ethics presence and persistence and can get mad."{{r|rinder|page=96}}{{r|hubbard-techdict|page=181}}