Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 31 - Public Safety › Part 301 - Board on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training Professional Certification Policy and Procedures › Chapter 3 - Professional Certificates › Rule 31-301-3.3 - Procedures

Current through June 25, 2024
1. All law enforcement employers included
				under the Law Enforcement Officers Training Program as described in this Policy
				and Procedures Manual should follow these steps in safekeeping certificates
				issued to their employees by the Board.
A. The
				employer, upon receiving the certificate from the Board director, should record
				the certificate number and the date issued in the employee's personnel
				file.
B. The certificate should
				remain in the physical custody of the employer at a site which houses agency
				operations. The employer may provide the employee with a photo static copy of
				the certificate.
C. The
				certificate, if defaced, destroyed, misplaced, or stolen while in the
				stewardship of the employer, will normally be replaced with a photo static
				copy. The production of duplicate certificates shall be minimized. The staff
				will evaluate each incident prior to the issuance of a duplicate
				certificate.
D. The employer should
				return the certificate to the Board director, along with a complete
"Termination/Reassignment Report"
form, within ten working days
				after:
1. The employee no longer meets all of
				the qualifications for employment (i.e.- the employee has been convicted, pled
				guilty, pled nolo contendere, fined, ordered into probation or pre-trial
				diversion in relation to a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude or to a
				crime that is directly related to the duties and responsibilities of a law
				enforcement officer, etc.
[the employer shall provide official
				documentation of any such conviction]);
2. Receiving written notice from the Board of
				evidence that the certificate was obtained through misrepresentation or
				fraud;
3. The employee dies,
				resigns, laterally transfers or is terminated;
4. The employee takes leave or is assigned
				leave from actual performance of law enforcement duties from the employer for
				any reason for an indefinite period or for a period planned to last more than
				twelve months;
5. And receiving
				written notice from the Board that the certificate shall be returned for other
				due cause as determined by the Board.
E. The staff shall decide the disposition of
				a certificate within a reasonable time after receiving notice that a
				certificate has been returned. The Board may decide to:
1. Delay consideration of the return of the
				certificate;
2. Inactivate the
				certificate;
3. Assign stewardship
				of the certificate to a new law enforcement employer or;
4. Annul/revoke a certificate, if issued in
				error or through misrepresentation or fraud.
F. In the case of lateral transfer, the staff
				shall forward the certificate to the appropriate employer.
G. The staff shall maintain the certificate
				and all other file information of officers who have died or whose certificates
				have been inactivated in the Board files.
H. When the staff has inactivated a
				certificate because an officer is no longer in law enforcement employment as
				described in this Policy and Procedures Manual, is on indefinite leave or leave
				for more than one year, or for other reasons the Board director may reactivate
				the certificate when the certified officer resumes employment for the employer
				who returned the certificate or under a new law enforcement employer included
				under the Law Enforcement Officers Training Program. In any case, the employer
				may initiate the reactivation process by forwarding a
"Law Enforcement
				Application for Certification and Background Investigation Review"
form,
				Parts I, II and III to the Director. The Board director shall forward a
				reactivated certificate to the employer.
I. When an officer, certified by Mississippi
				statute, leaves law enforcement employment for a period of two years or more,
				his or her certification will lapse. Upon receiving a request to reactivate the
				officer's certification, the staff shall notify the employer, by letter, that
				the officer's certification has lapsed, and that the officer must qualify for
				Board certification within one year for full-time status and two years for
				part-time status of his or her current date of hire.