109:2-18-02 Officer training requirements.

 

 

 

109:2-18-02                 Officer training requirements.

 

 

 

(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)    The commission shall set the required minimum number of hours based upon the availability of funding for reimbursement. If no funding is available for reimbursement, continuing professional training shall not be required thatfor the yearyear(s) in which sufficient funding was not available.

 

(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. Otherwise, a peace officer who receives a new appointment before July first1, shall complete the required number of hours of continuing professional training during the balance of that calendar year. A peace officer who receives a new appointment on or after July first1, is not required to complete continuing professional training for that calendar year.

 

(D)     The executive director may extend the time for completion of the continuing professional training requirements upon written request from the appointing authority. Such request shall contain an explanation of the emergency circumstances which created the need for the extension. The application shall set forth the name of the peace officer or trooper for whom the extension is requested, the emergency circumstances, including documentation, for which the extension is requested, and the date on which the request was submitted to the commission. Factors which may be considered in granting or denying such requests include, but are not limited to, serious illness of the individual or an immediate family member, prolonged military service, or an unreasonable shortage of manpower within the appointing agency. Based upon the emergency circumstances in any given case, the executive director may extend the required completion date. Extensions shall be for ninety days, absent a finding by the executive director that special circumstances exist for a longer extension.

 

(E)    The executive director shall either grant or deny the request for extension within thirty days after the date on which the request was submitted to the commission. The executive director shall send written notice of the decision to the appointing authority.

 

(F)    In the event a peace officer or trooper is appointed by more than one agency, the agency responsible for documenting the training and eligibility for reimbursement shall be determined by order of priority as follows: (1) paid full-time, (2) paid

 

 

part-time, and (3) unpaid. In the event a peace officer or trooper holds appointments of equal priority, the agency by which the peace officer or trooper was first appointed shall be the agency responsible for documenting the training and eligiblityeligibility.

Effective:   R.C. 119.032 review dates:	10/16/2009   07/13/2009 and 10/16/2014
CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY
Certification
09/17/2009
Date
Promulgated Under:	119.03
Statutory Authority:	109.802
Rule Amplifies:	109.73, 109.75, 109.802, 109.803
Prior Effective Dates:	10/12/2007