California Code of Regulations › Title 11 - Law › Division 2 - Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training › Article 1 - General › Section 1014 - Reimbursement for Training of Non-Sworn Personnel

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Reimbursement shall, subject to available
				funds, be provided to eligible agencies as defined in California Penal Code Section
				13523 for the
				training of non-sworn personnel performing police tasks and personnel attending the
				Basic Course, as provided for by subsections
				1014(a)(1)-(9) and
				Commission Regulation 1015.
(1) The training shall
				be specific to the task currently being performed by an employee or may be training
				specific to a future assignment which is actually being planned.
(2) Non-sworn personnel may attend the courses
				identified in Commission Regulation 1005(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e), but
				reimbursement shall not be provided except as indicated in subsections
				1014(a)(3), (4), and
				(5) and subject to available funds.
(3) Police Trainees, Police Cadets, and/or
				Community Service Officers, may attend a certified Basic Course and reimbursement
				shall, subject to available funds, be provided to the agency participating in the
				POST Reimbursable Program in accordance with the regular reimbursement procedures up
				to the maximum hours as listed in Commission Regulation 1015(d)(2).
(4) With pre-approval from POST staff, an agency
				participating in the POST Reimbursable Program shall, subject to available funds, be
				reimbursed for a full-time, non-sworn employee assigned to a middle management or
				higher position to attend a POST-certified Management Course. Reimbursement shall be
				the same as for a regular officer in an equivalent position. Requests for approval
				shall be submitted in writing to POST, Management Counseling, Leadership Development
				Bureau, at least 30 days prior to the start of the course.
Requests for approval must include required information as
				  specified in Commission Regulation 1015(b). Approval will be based on submission of
				  written documentation specifying that the non-sworn manager is filling a full-time
				  position with functional responsibility in the organization above the position of
				  first-line supervisor.
(5) With
				pre-approval from POST staff, an agency participating in the POST Reimbursable
				Program shall, subject to available funds, be reimbursed for a full-time, non-sworn
				employee assigned to an executive position, as defined in Commission Regulation
				1001, to attend a POST-certified Executive Development Course. Reimbursement shall
				be the same as for a regular officer in an equivalent position. Reimbursement shall
				be made only when the employee has completed a POST-certified Management Course as a
				prerequisite to attendance in the Executive Development Course, as required by
				Commission Regulation 1005(e).
Requests for approval shall be submitted in writing to POST,
				  Management Counseling, Leadership Development Bureau, at least 30 days prior to the
				  start of the course. Requests for approval must include such information as
				  specified in subsection
				  1014(b). Approval will
				  be based on submission of written documentation that the non-sworn executive is
				  filling a full-time position with the functional responsibility in the organization
				  equivalent to the rank of captain or above.
(6) Non-sworn employees of an agency participating
				in the POST Reimbursable Program who perform police tasks, and who will be assigned,
				or who are already assigned, to the following job classes are eligible, without
				prior approval from POST staff, to attend training courses specific to their job
				assignments. Their respective agencies shall, subject to available funds, receive
				reimbursement for completion of POST-certified courses.
Administrative Positions
Criminalist
Community Service Officer
Evidence Technician
Fingerprint Technician
Identification Technician
Jailer
Parking Control Officer
Polygraph Examiner
Records Clerk
Records Supervisor
School Resource Officer
Traffic Director and Control Officer
(7) Reimbursement for training which is not
				specific to one of the job classes enumerated in the above paragraph must be
				approved by POST staff on an individual basis prior to the beginning of the course.
				Requests for approval shall be submitted in the manner required in subsection
				1014(b).
(8) A full-time public safety dispatcher as
				defined in Commission Regulation 1001, from an agency participating in the POST
				Reimbursable Program, shall attend the POST-certified Public Safety Dispatcher Basic
				Course required by Commission Regulation 1018. The agency shall, subject to
				available funds, be reimbursed for allowable training expenses up to the maximum
				hours listed in Commission Regulation 1015(d)(2).
(9) Public safety dispatchers from an agency
				participating in the POST Reimbursable Program may attend POST-certified seminars
				and technical courses specific to their assignments without prior approval from POST
				staff and their respective agencies shall be reimbursed subject to available funds.
				If such seminars and courses are not specific to public safety dispatcher
				assignments, reimbursement must be approved by POST staff prior to attendance at the
				course. Requests for approval shall be submitted in the manner required in
				subsection 1014
				(b).