12-9-403 Appointment and Training

1. No person shall be appointed as a police traffic radar operator or police traffic radar instructor until the minimum standards for training requirements have been completed.

2. All police traffic radar operators shall have one (1) year from March 22, 1983, to have completed the required training or to have previously met the training requirements or the training equivalent as determined by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training.

3. The training requirements for police traffic radar operators or police traffic radar instructors shall be established by the Commission.

4. The Commission 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 police traffic radar operator has met the training requirements.

5. Nothing herein shall be construed to preclude any law enforcement agency from establishing qualifications and standards for appointing and training of police traffic radar operators and police traffic radar instructors that exceed those set by this subchapter or by the Commission.

6. Any police traffic radar operator or police traffic radar instructor failing to meet the training requirements as set forth in this subchapter shall lose his authority to operate traffic radar for enforcement purposes.

7. An officer must have completed the basic police training course equired for officer certification before being eligible to enroll and complete the traffic radar course as prescribed by the Commission.

8. Only Full-Time officers will be eligible for certification as a police raffic radar operator.

CASE NOTES

CITED: Price v. State, 285 Ark, 148, 685 S.W.2d 506 (1985).