Basic training course -- Completion required -- Annual training -- Prohibition from exercising powers -- Reinstatement.
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(1)
(a) The director shall:
(i)
(A) suggest and prepare subject material; and
(B) schedule instructors for basic training courses; or
(ii) review the material and instructor choices submitted by a certified academy.
(b) The subject material, instructors, and schedules shall be approved or disapproved by a majority vote of the council.
(2) The materials shall be reviewed and approved by the council on or before July 1st of each year and may from time to time be changed or amended by majority vote of the council.
(3) The basic training in a certified academy:
(a) shall be appropriate for the basic training of peace officers in the techniques of law enforcement in the discretion of the director; and
(b) may not include the use of chokeholds, carotid restraints, or any act that impedes the breathing or circulation of blood likely to produce a loss of consciousness, as a valid method of restraint.
(4)
(a) All peace officers shall satisfactorily complete the basic training course or the waiver process provided for in this chapter as well as annual certified training of not less than 40 hours as the director, with the advice and consent of the council, directs.
(b) A peace officer who fails to satisfactorily complete the annual training shall automatically be prohibited from exercising peace officer powers until any deficiency is made up.
(c)
(i) Beginning July 1, 2021, the annual training shall include no less than 16 hours of training focused on mental health and other crisis intervention responses, arrest control, and de-escalation training.
(ii) Standards for the training shall be determined by each law enforcement agency or department and approved by the director or designee.
(iii) Each law enforcement agency or department shall include a breakdown of the 16 hours within the annual audit submitted to the division.
(5) Beginning July 1, 2021, the director shall ensure that annual training covers intervention responses for mental illnesses, autism spectrum disorder, and other neurological and developmental disorders.