Virginia Administrative Code › Title 6 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS › Agency 20 - DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES › Chapter 60 - Rules Relating to Compulsory Minimum Training Standards for Dispatchers › Section 6VAC20-60-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Academy director" means the chief administrative officer of
				  a certified criminal justice training academy.
"Agency administrator" means any chief of police, sheriff,
				  agency head of a state or local law-enforcement agency, or non-law-enforcement
				  head of a communications center.
"Board" means the Criminal Justice Services Board.
"Certified criminal justice training academy" means a
				  training facility or campus in compliance with academy certification or
				  recertification standards and operated by the state or local units of
				  government that is owned, leased, rented, or used exclusively for the purpose
				  of training criminal justice professionals regulated by department and board.
				  Approved firing ranges, driving tracks, and defensive tactics training rooms
				  are considered part of the academy facility, subject to review during academy
				  certification and recertification.
"Committee on Training" or "COT" means the standing committee
				  of the board that is charged with reviewing proposed changes to the standards,
				  receiving and reviewing public comments, and approving changes to the standards
				  as needed.
"Compulsory minimum training standards" means the written
				  performance outcomes approved by the Committee on Training and minimum training
				  hours approved by the Criminal Justice Services Board.
"Curriculum Review Committee" means the committee consisting
				  of the following nine individuals: two members of the committee shall represent
				  regional criminal justice training academies, two members of the committee
				  shall represent independent criminal justice training academies, one member
				  shall represent the Department of State Police Training Academy, and four
				  experienced communications personnel shall represent emergency communication
				  functions. The Committee on Training shall appoint members of the Curriculum
				  Review Committee.
"Department" means the Department of Criminal Justice
				  Services.
"Designee" means one who acts with the authority of the chief
				  executive of the agency.
"Director" means the chief administrative officer of the
				  department or the director's designee.
"Dispatcher" means any person employed by or in any local or
				  state government agency either full time or part time whose duties include the
				  dispatching of law-enforcement personnel.
"Mandated training" means training that satisfies compulsory
				  minimum training requirements (i.e., basic and in-service training).
"Satellite facility" means a temporary facility located away
				  from the certified academy facility, which the certified criminal justice
				  training academy uses exclusively to conduct in-service
				  training.
Statutory Authority: §
											9.1-102
					 of the Code of Virginia.