California Code of Regulations › Title 11 - Law › Division 2 - Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training › Article 1 - General › Section 1001 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(1) "Academy
				Coordinator" is an individual responsible for the coordination of instruction and
				the management of basic courses.
(2)
				"Academy Director" is an individual responsible for the management of an academy
				which requires instructional planning, organization of training resources, selection
				and motivation of training personnel, and control and discipline of the training
				environment.
(3) "The Act" refers to
				Part 4, Title 4 of the Penal Code of California, commencing at Section
				13500 and entitled, "Standards and
				Training of Local Law Enforcement Officers."
(4) "Actual Course Presentation Cost" is the total
				allowable direct and indirect expenses (see Commission Regulation 1054) to conduct
				one presentation of a POST-certified course, less any subventions from outside
				sources. Subventions received from outside sources may include, but are not limited
				to, fees, grants, gifts, Full-Time Equivalent Student (FTES) shares from community
				college affiliations, and monetary equivalents of services, equipment or materials
				provided in support of the course.
(5)
				"Agency Presenter" is a department, or departments working together under a joint
				powers or other agreement, eligible for POST reimbursement which presents
				POST-certified training course(s).
(6)
				"Assistant Department Head" is an individual occupying the first position
				subordinate to a department head, is generally responsible for supervision of middle
				managers and/or supervisors and is a position for which commensurate pay is
				authorized.
(7) "Asynchronous Learning"
				is when participants engage with each other and the same course content while
				separated by distance and time. Much of the distance learning in higher education is
				asynchronous via Internet discussion forums and online collaboration
				tools.
(8) "Backfill Reimbursement" is
				the reimbursable allowance for an agency's expense of paying salary at the overtime
				rate to a peace officer employee who replaces another peace officer employee for
				his/her attendance of selected POST-certified training [reference Commission
				Regulation 1015(d)].
(9) "Blended
				Learning" is an instructional method that combines the use of online media and
				classroom instruction. In a blended learning environment, students complete a course
				that integrates online learning via instructor-led or self-paced instruction with
				face to face classroom instruction. Basic Courses certified under Commission
				Regulation 1059 are not authorized for online course delivery.
(10) "Certified Course" (see "POST-certified
				Course").
(11) "Cheating" is any act or
				attempt to gain or provide unethical advantage to anyone involved in a
				POST-certified course. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the following acts
				or attempts to:
(A) Use, obtain or provide any
				material that gives unethical advantage to any person preparing for, or taking, any
				test.
(B) Plagiarize.
(C) Aid, abet, conceal or fail to report an act of
				cheating.