Regulation 1005

Minimum Standards for Training
(Full-Time and Part-Time I Officers)

1. Basic Police Training Course
   
   
   1. Each Full-Time law enforcement officer, and each Part-Time I Law Enforcement Officer who is employed and working twenty (20) or more hours per week but less than forty (40) hours per week, must satisfactorily complete the Basic Police Training Course as prescribed in Specification S-9, within the time period established in Regulation 1003(4).
      
      
   2. Any Full-Time or Part-Time I Law Enforcement Officer who has previously met the minimum training requirements, and has been separated from law enforcement for more than seven (7) years shall be required to satisfactorily complete an approved Basic Police Training Course. If extraordinary circumstances exist in the opinion of the Commission, they may choose to waive the full Basic and may require the Refresher Course only. In such circumstances, certification may be issued to an individual who has successfully completed the Refresher Course.
      
      
   3. Appointment or employment as an Auxiliary, Part-Time II, or Specialized Police Person during the seven (7) year period of separation will not exclude the Full-Time or Part-Time I Law Enforcement Officer from mandatory attendance of a new Basic Training Course.
      
      
   4. Part-Time II Law Enforcement Officers who are employed and working less than 20 hours per week and Auxiliary Law Enforcement Officers will be required to satisfactorily complete not less than 100 hours of Commission approved law enforcement training including a Firearms Qualification Course equivalent to the Firearms Qualification requirements for a Full-Time Law Enforcement Officer. Separation from law enforcement for three (3) years will result in the Auxiliary and the Part-Time II Law Enforcement Officer being required to attend a new 100 hour training course.
      
      
   5. Any Full-Time or Part-Time I Law Enforcement Officer who fails to satisfactorily complete the Basic Police Training Course within the time period allowed by Regulation 1003(4), or who once enrolled in the course, fails the course or is expelled from the course, will not be eligible for training nor certification for twenty-four (24) months following the date of failure or expulsion from the training course or the date of expiration of the probationary period. In the event a Full-Time or Part-Time I Law Enforcement Officer fails the course or is expelled from the course, said officer shall not be eligible to serve, be employed, or otherwise function as a law enforcement officer in this State from that date until the expiration of twenty-four months following the date of failure or expulsion from the training course. If an officer properly appeals his failure or expulsion, said officer may retain his eligibility to serve as a law enforcement officer until such time as the Commission has ruled upon said appeal or the expiration of the time period allowed by Regulation 1003(4), whichever occurs first.
      
      
   6. If an officer fails to satisfactorily complete the required training in a total of twenty (20) months from the original date of employment or appointment, he shall not be eligible to be retained as a law enforcement officer in this State.
      
      
   7. Reappointment or re-employment as a law enforcement officer will be considered only after the person has been separated from law enforcement for at least twenty-four (24) months. Upon reappointment or re-employment an officer would be eligible to begin a new twelve (12) month probationary period.
      
      
   8. Should the officer fail to meet the minimum training requirement for a second time, he or she will not be eligible for certification as a Full-Time, Part-Time, Auxiliary or in any other law enforcement officer position.

6. Specialized Courses

1. Specialized Courses shall be optional and voluntary courses.
   
   
2. Specification S-14 describes the Specialized Courses.