2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 289 - Peace Officers and Other Law Enforcement Personnel › NRS 289.510 - Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission: Powers and duties; regulations; construction of section.

1. The Commission:
(a) Shall meet at the call of the Chair, who must be elected by a majority vote of the members of the Commission.
(b) Shall provide for and encourage the training and education of persons whose primary duty is law enforcement to ensure the safety of the residents of and visitors to this State.
(c) May make necessary inquiries to determine whether the agencies of this State and of the local governments are complying with standards set forth in the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection 2.
(d) Shall carry out the duties required of the Commission pursuant to NRS 432B.610 and 432B.620.
(e) May perform any other acts that may be necessary and appropriate to the functions of the Commission as set forth in NRS 289.450 to 289.680, inclusive.
(f) May enter into an interlocal agreement with an Indian tribe to provide training to and certification of persons employed as police officers by that Indian tribe.
(g) Shall develop and approve a standard curriculum of certified training programs in crisis intervention, which may be made available in an electronic format, and which address specialized responses to persons with mental illness and train peace officers to identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness, to de-escalate situations involving persons who appear to be experiencing a behavioral health crisis and, if appropriate, to connect such persons to treatment. A peace officer who completes any program developed pursuant to this paragraph must be issued a certificate of completion.
2. The Commission shall adopt regulations establishing minimum standards for:
(a) The certification and decertification, recruitment, selection and training of peace officers. The standards adopted pursuant to this paragraph must:
(1) Establish requirements for evaluations to be conducted during the recruitment and selection of peace officers, which must identify implicit bias on the part of a peace officer on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression;
(2) Establish requirements for basic training for category I, category II and category III peace officers and reserve peace officers;
(3) Establish standards for programs for the continuing education of peace officers, including minimum courses of study and requirements concerning attendance, which must require that all peace officers annually complete not less than 12 hours of continuing education in courses that address:
(I) Racial profiling;
(II) Mental health, including, without limitation, crisis intervention;
(III) The well-being of officers;
(IV) Implicit bias recognition;
(V) De-escalation;
(VI) Human trafficking; and
(VII) Firearms;
(4) Establish qualifications for instructors of peace officers;
(5) Establish requirements for the certification of a course of training;
(6) Require all peace officers to receive training in the handling of cases involving abuse or neglect of children or missing children;
(7) Require all peace officers to receive training in the handling of cases involving abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation and abandonment of older persons or vulnerable persons;
(8) Not prohibit the certification of an applicant solely on the basis that the applicant has engaged in the adult use of cannabis or the medical use of cannabis;
(9) Not require the decertification of a peace officer solely on the basis that the peace officer has engaged in the adult use of cannabis or the medical use of cannabis; and
(10) Require the decertification of a peace officer upon a determination by the Commission that the peace officer knowingly provided false or misleading information in his or her application for certification.
(b) An annual behavioral wellness visit for peace officers to aid in preserving the emotional and mental health of the peace officer and assessing any conditions that may affect the performance of duties by the peace officer.
(c) The reciprocity of a person who has been certified as a category III peace officer or its equivalent by the certifying authority of another state or who has successfully completed a federal law enforcement training program that is equivalent to a category III peace officer in this State.
3. The regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to subsection 2:
(a) Apply to all agencies of this State and of local governments in this State that employ persons as peace officers; and
(b) May require that training be carried on at institutions which it approves in those regulations.
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a law enforcement agency from adopting a policy that requires a peace officer to submit to a screening test as:
(a) A condition precedent to employment; or
(b) A condition for continued employment.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2421; A 2001, 1730; 2009, 2449; 2015, 831; 2019, 1009, 3495, 4462; 2021, 551, 574, 950; 2023, 839, 2546)