Michigan Administrative Code › Department - State Police › Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) › Law Enforcement Standards and Training › Part 3 - BASIC RECRUIT LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING › Section R. 28.14301 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 301. As used in this part:
(a) "Academy operating contract" means a
				  basic law enforcement training academy standard form contract executed between
				  MCOLES and an academy under the administrative procedures act, section 7,
				  1969PA 306, MCL 24.207(p).
(b)
				  "Accredited community college, college, or university" means a community
				  college, college, or university that has been accredited by an agency or
				  association that has been recognized by the United States department of
				  education.
(c) "Agency basic law
				  enforcement training academy" means a law enforcement agency that is approved
				  by the commission to provide a course of study for qualified recruits employed
				  by that law enforcement agency.
(d)
				  "Basic law enforcement training academy graduate" means a recruit who has
				  completed the training and educational requirements of a commission approved
				  basic law enforcement training academy.
(e) "Curriculum" means the commission
				  mandated training objectives and training standards, as well as facilitator
				  guides, assessment instruments, and other materials that are published by the
				  commission for use in a commission approved basic law enforcement training
				  academy.
(f) "Executive committee"
				  means the committee of the commission established pursuant to the commission
				  bylaws.
(g) "Preservice college
				  basic law enforcement training academy" means a commission approved training
				  and education program offered by an accredited community college, college, or
				  university that incorporates the commission mandated curriculum in the academic
				  course of study.
(h) "Program
				  administrator" means a person who is employed by a city, county, township,
				  village, corporation, college, community college, university, or state agency
				  and who has been delegated authority to commit the agency to the basic law
				  enforcement training academy proposal, annual operating plan, and the academy
				  operating contract. The program administrator shall have management and
				  oversight authority of the academy but shall not be the same person as the
				  training director.
(i) "Regional
				  basic law enforcement training academy" means a city, county, township,
				  village, corporation, college, community college, university, or state agency
				  that is approved by the commission to offer a basic law enforcement training
				  program to preservice and employed recruits.
(j) "Satisfactory grade" means a grade of
				  70%, 2.0 on a 4.0 scale, or an institutional equivalent, or better grade, in
				  each course included in the commission approved course of study in a preservice
				  college basic training academy, unless specified otherwise in these
				  rules.
(k) "Session" means a
				  commission approved time frame during which a group of recruits are trained
				  during basic law enforcement training at an academy.
(l) "Training and education advisory
				  committee" means a group composed of knowledgeable persons, including law
				  enforcement officials, who act in an advisory capacity regarding the
				  establishment, guidance, and evaluation of a commission approved basic law
				  enforcement training academy.
(m)
				  "Training director" means that person who is responsible for the day-today
				  operation of a basic law enforcement training academy.
(n) "Training objective" means a behavioral
				  statement that describes a knowledge, skill, or ability to be acquired by the
				  recruit during the delivery of the basic law enforcement training course of
				  study.