Indiana Administrative Code
Title 250 - LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING BOARD
Article 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Rule 10 - Minimum Qualifications for Instructors
Section 10-2 - Instructor qualifications
Universal Citation: 250 IN Admin Code 10-2
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 5-2-1-9
Affected: IC 5-2-1-12
Sec. 2.
Instructors will be certified on the basis of minimal qualifications in the areas of education, training, and experience as follows:
(1) Requirements for primary instructors shall be as follows:
(A) Any of
the following:
(i) A minimum of three (3)
years of law enforcement experience.
(ii) Be a member of the adjunct faculty or
faculty of an accredited vocational school, college, or university.
(iii) Be a physician or attorney licensed to
practice in Indiana or a contiguous state.
(B) At a minimum, be a high school graduate
or have an equivalency diploma issued by an accredited high school.
(C) Educational and experience requirements
may be waived by the board, through its executive director, when a special or
emergency training need exists.
(D)
Persons certified as primary instructors are considered by the board to possess
the level of instructor skills needed to provide prebasic, distance education,
and inservice training for law enforcement officers and others in the criminal
justice system.
(2) Requirements for psychomotor skills instructors shall be as follows:
(A) At a minimum, be a high school graduate
or have an equivalency diploma issued by an accredited high school.
(B) Either have:
(i) a minimum of three (3) years of law
enforcement experience; or
(ii)
three (3) years of experience working in an area that is directly related to
the psychomotor skill that the person will be teaching.
(C) Educational and experience requirements
may be waived by the board, through its executive director, when a special or
emergency need exists.
(D) Persons
certified as psychomotor skills instructors are considered by the board to
possess the level of instructor skills needed to teach a specific psychomotor
skill to law enforcement officers and others in the criminal justice system.
The specific areas in which a psychomotor skills instructor has documented
advanced knowledge and skills will appear on the certificate issued by the
board, through its executive director, such as psychomotor skills instructor
(emergency vehicle operation) or psychomotor skills instructor
(firearms-handgun).
(3) Requirements for academy staff instructors shall be as follows:
(A) A minimum of an associate's degree or
more than sixty (60) hours of credit toward a bachelor's degree from a state
accredited vocational school, college, or university.
(B) A minimum of five (5) years of law
enforcement experience.
(C)
Educational and experience requirements may be waived by the board, through its
executive director, when it is felt that the individual will fill a special
void that exists in an academy staff.
(D) Persons certified as academy staff
instructors are deemed by the board to have the level of skills necessary to
instruct or assist with instruction, in any topic presented in the academy's
course curriculum, but only after having been provided research time to prepare
a lesson plan or after having been provided with a predeveloped lesson plan and
time to review that plan.
(4) Requirements for master instructors shall be as follows:
(A) A minimum of a bachelor's
degree from an accredited college or university or a combined background of
experience and education that the board, through its executive director,
recognizes as equivalent to a bachelor's degree.
(B) A minimum of seven (7) years of law
enforcement experience or law enforcement related experience. Two (2) years or
more of this experience must have been spent as an instructor in an educational
or training environment.
(C)
Persons certified as master instructors must be skilled at the following:
(i) Conducting research.
(ii) Writing learning objectives.
(iii) Preparing lesson plans.
(iv) Developing practical
exercises.
(v) Using training
aids.
(vi) Evaluating the results
of training programs.
(vii)
Maintaining training records.
(viii) Using technology effectively.
Master instructors, by virtue of their certification, are qualified to act as the principal instructor in a board-approved instructor course.
(5) Requirements for provisional instructors shall be as follows:
(A) The degree of
education, training, and experience needed to qualify for provisional
instructor certification shall be determined by the board through its executive
director.
(B) Provisional
instructor certification is a temporary certification and may be issued by the
board, through its executive director, in any subject area, for any period of
time from one (1) day to one (1) year.
(C) The board retains the same rights of
review and revocation for provisional certification that it does for any other
type of instructor certification.
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