V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1204 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 16 - Peace Officer Standards and Training Council|§ 1204. Powers and duties of the Council

 (a) The Council is vested with the following functions and powers to: (1) Meet at such times and places as it may consider necessary; (2) Contract with other agencies, public or private, or persons as it considers necessary for the rendering and affording of such service, facilities, studies and reports to the Council as will best assist it to carry out its duties and responsibilities; (3) Participate with and secure the cooperation of every department, agency or instrumentality in the furtherance of the purpose of this chapter; (4) Establish the standards for training of personnel to staff the territorial Police and Correction Training Academy; (5) Determine the qualifications for acceptance to the Territorial Peace Officers Standardized Training School; (6) Establish the minimum requirements for employment as a temporary, probationary, emergency, and/or part-time position as a peace officer; (7) Develop the curriculum and course of study for the certification of a peace officer; (8) Establish the requirements for peace officers to be re-certified on an annual basis; (9) Certify all peace officers within the Territory; (10) Approve schools and prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools and to train instructors; (11) Determine whether a candidate has met the requirements of this chapter and is qualified to be employed as a peace officer, and to issue a certificate to those qualified; (12) Certify to the law enforcement or corrections unit on the candidate's successful completion of the course; (13) Do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it wholly and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it; (14) Establish curriculum composing the basic training course; (15) Adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including but not limited to, the following: (A) To prescribe forms to be used by the law enforcement and correction units in obtaining data required on a candidate, e.g. personal history, medical history, doctors certificate, training certificated, internal investigation, or other forms that the Council deem necessary for record-keeping purposes under this chapter; (B) To establish administrative standards and procedures to be implemented by law enforcement and correction units under this chapter; and (C) To establish the degree and proficiency a candidate must achieve to satisfactorily complete the training requirements under this chapter. (16) Establish the grounds for suspension and termination for the certification of peace officers within the Territory; (17) Determine the length of time and conditions of which a peace officer may serve in a probationary temporary or emergency position; and (18) Require that any law enforcement agency within the Territory in which any peace officer shall resign or in which any peace officer's employment is terminated or suspended as a result of disciplinary action or investigation of a matter which may warrant disciplinary action shall within thirty (30) days of such action, submit a written report of the Council as to the nature of the action and the agency's justification for the action.