Ohio Administrative Code › Title 109:2 - Peace Officer Training Commission › Chapter 109:2-18 - Continuing Professional Training for Peace Officers and Troopers › Section 109:2-18-02 - Officer training requirements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Every appointing authority shall require
			 each of its appointed peace officers and troopers to complete up to twenty-four
			 hours of continuing professional training each calendar year.
(B)
								Effective from
			 the date of this amendment, every peace officer and trooper must complete the
			 required hours of continuing professional training each calendar year in order
			 to carry a firearm while on duty and perform the functions of a peace officer
			 or trooper. The commission shall set the required minimum number of hours based
			 upon the training needs and availability of funding for reimbursement.
(C) Newly certified peace officers shall be
			 exempt from continuing professional training requirements for the calendar year
			 in which the peace officer completed peace officer basic training. Newly
			 commissioned troopers shall be exempt from continuing professional training
			 requirements for the calendar year in which the trooper completed the highway
			 patrol cadet training program.
(D)
								Regardless of when a peace officer or trooper receives
			 an appointment during a calendar year, the peace officer or trooper is required
			 to complete continuing professional training for the calendar year in which the
			 peace officer or trooper was appointed. If a peace officer or trooper was not
			 appointed by any agency in a calendar year where continuing professional
			 training was required, the peace officer or trooper is not required to complete
			 continuing professional training for the calendar year or years in which the
			 peace officer or trooper was not appointed by any agency.
(E)
			 Sheriffs completing training pursuant to division (B) of section
			 109.80 and division (E) of
			 section 311.01 of the Revised Code may
			 receive credit towards the peace officer continuing professional training
			 requirement as long as the training satisfies the requirements of this
			 chapter.
(F)
								Chiefs of police completing training pursuant to
			 division (A) of section
			 109.804 of the Revised Code may
			 receive credit towards the peace officer continuing professional training
			 requirement as long as the training satisfies the requirements of this
			 chapter.
(G) Officers completing
			 statutorily mandated training may receive credit towards the peace officer
			 continuing professional training requirement for the calendar year the training
			 is taken as long as the training satisfies the requirements of this
			 chapter.
(H) Peace officers and
			 troopers may receive credit for up to four hours of continuing professional
			 training for time spent while on duty providing drug use prevention education
			 training if all of the following requirements are met:
(1) The curricula and lesson plans utilized
			 must be evidenced-based.
(2) The
			 students instructed must be in a school district, community school established
			 under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, STEM school established under Chapter
			 3326. of the Revised Code or a college-preparatory boarding school established
			 under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code, and
(3) The peace officer or trooper providing
			 the training meets the instructor requirements found in paragraph (A)(4)(a) of
			 rule 109:2-18-03 of the
			 Administrative Code.