(a) The Police Commissioner shall develop and institute courses of instructions in police work, including maintaining and preserving public order; prevention, detection and repression of crime; and protection of person and property. He shall also institute physical fitness programs as required in the best interest of the Corps, and shall designate from time to time such other additional and further duties as the Commissioner shall deem necessary.
(b) The Commissioner shall recommend members of the Training Program to receive scholarships to training schools and police forces in the continental United States for the purpose of further training. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as the Legislature, on the recommendation of the Police Commissioner, determines to be necessary for the purposes of this section.