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- No person
shall be appointed as an Auxiliary law enforcement officer
until the minimum standards for appointment and training
requirements have been completed. Any Auxiliary law enforcement
officer who has not met these requirements shall have no
law enforcement authority except that which is authorized
for a private citizen.
- All persons
who are serving as Auxiliary law enforcement officers prior
to March 23, 1983, are exempt from meeting the appointment
requirements.
- The training
requirements for Auxiliary law enforcement officers shall
be established by the Commission and the basic training
course shall not exceed the Part-Time law enforcement officer's
training requirements.
- Honorary police
officers are exempt from the provisions of this subchapter.
- The Arkansas
Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training may
issue a certificate evidencing satisfactory completion of
the requirements of this subchapter when evidence is submitted
by the law enforcement agency director, chief, or sheriff
that the Auxiliary law enforcement officer has met the training
and selection requirements.
- It shall be
the responsibility of the appointing law enforcement agency
to provide or have provided not less than one hundred (100)
hours of Commission approved law enforcement training, which
will include a firearms qualification course equivalent
to the firearms qualification requirements for a Full-Time
law enforcement officer, and no Auxiliary law enforcement
officer shall bear arms until having successfully completed
the training.
- Nothing herein
shall be construed to preclude any law enforcement agency
from establishing qualifications and standards for appointing
and training of Auxiliary law enforcement officers that
exceed those set by this subchapter or by the Commission.
- Any Auxiliary
law enforcement officer failing to meet the training requirements
as set forth in this subchapter shall lose his appointment
as Auxiliary law enforcement officer and shall not be reappointed
until training requirements have been met.
- No one may
be appointed or serve as an Auxiliary law enforcement officer
if the person has been convicted by a state or by the federal
government of a crime, the punishment for which could have
been imprisonment in a federal penitentiary or a state prison.
- Every person
appointed or serving as an Auxiliary law enforcement officer
shall be a citizen of the United States and shall be at
least twenty-one (21) years of age.
HISTORY Acts 1983, No. 757, 4; A.S.A. 1947, 42-1404.
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