Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 132 - Commission of Law Enforcement Standards and Training › Rule 132.00.10-001 - Regulation 1005 - Minimum Standards for Training (Full-Time and Part-Time I Enforcement Officers)

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
(1)
Basic Police Training Course
(a)
		  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).
(b) 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 five (5) years but
		  less than ten (10) years may, at the request of the sponsoring agency, which
		  has either employed the individual or made a conditional offer of employment to
		  the individual, be allowed to take a comprehensive examination prepared,
		  administered, scheduled and graded by ALETA/CLEST. If the law enforcement
		  applicant successfully passes the written exam, he or she may forego attending
		  the full Basic Police Training Course provided he or she attends the 40-hour
		  Refresher Course currently offered, as well as meet the other selection
		  requirements, prior to being eligible for certification.
(i) The examination will be administered at
		  the ALETA Campus located in East Carnden, Arkansas, at a time and date
		  scheduled by the Commission and will consist of questions taken from the
		  current edition of
Arkansas Criminal and Traffic Law Manual,
published by Lexis Nexis, and
CLEST Rules and Regulations
		  Manual,
published by CLEST.
(ii) Law enforcement applicants who desire to
		  challenge the exam must have completed a state or federal law enforcement
		  academy consisting of at least the current number of required hours to complete
		  the ALETA basic training, subject to Regulation 1008.
(ii) An applicant who fails to pass the
		  two-hundred and fifty (250) question examination with a Minimum score of 70%
		  after two attempts is required to complete the basic training course in order
		  to be eligible for certification.
(iii) Anyone who has been separated from law
		  enforcement for ten (10) years or more is required to attend a new Basic Law
		  Enforcement Course without exception.
(c) Appointment or employment as an
		  Auxiliary, Part-time n, or Specialized Police Person during five (5) to ten
		  (10) year period of separation will not exclude the Full-time or Part-time I
		  Law Enforcement Officer from complying with the requirements of
		  (1)(b).
(d) 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.
(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) Reappointment or
		  reemployment 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 reemployment, an officer would be eligible to
		  begin a new twelve (12) month probationary period.
(h) 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.