Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 13, December 25, 2024
(1) Reserve officers
must receive council certification in the use of weapons the hiring authority
expects and authorizes the reserve peace officers to carry. Weapons training is
not required with any weapons the reserve officers are not authorized to
carry.
(2) Individuals who have
been certified through training by the Iowa law enforcement academy as regular
officers may be certified to carry weapons as reserve officers without
repeating the required reserve officer's weapons training under the following
conditions:
a. The academy certification
through training was acquired through a school in which firearms training was
required; and
(1) The individual is serving as
a regular officer for another department at the time of appointment as a
reserve officer, or
(2) The
individual has served as a regular officer within the two years immediately
preceding appointment as a reserve officer.
b. Verification must also be provided to the
council that the officer has fired a qualifying score of 80 percent or higher
on a firearm course using targets approved by the academy within the past 12
months. This verification must be provided by an academy-trained and -certified
firearms instructor.
(3)
Firearms, striking instruments and chemical weapons training must be provided
by an Iowa law enforcement academy-certified instructor before a reserve peace
officer can be certified to carry weapons. Reserve officer weapons training
requirements are the same as those required of regular law enforcement officers
during their basic training.
(4)
Application for weapons certification.
a.
Application for weapons certification must be made in writing to the council on
forms provided by the academy.
b.
An applicant for certification to carry weapons as a reserve peace officer must
be of good moral character and not have been convicted or adjudicated of any
offense listed in 501-paragraph 2.1(5)
"a."
c. Verification must be received by the
council that a fingerprint check has been made with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the division of criminal investigation of the Iowa department
of public safety and that the applicant has not been convicted or adjudicated
of any offense listed in 501-paragraph 2.1(5)
"a." Fingerprint
check responses from these agencies must be dated not more than one year prior
to the date of the receipt by the academy of the application to the council for
certification.
d. Council
certification will be granted only where weapons proficiency is documented.
Training in support of an application to the Iowa law enforcement academy
council to carry weapons as a reserve peace officer shall have been
accomplished not more than one year prior to the date of the receipt by the
academy of the application to the council for certification. Failure to file
the application within one year of the date of training shall require the
officer to undergo weapons training anew.
e. Interim certification to carry weapons may
be granted by the chairperson of the council if all requirements for
certification have been met by the reserve officer and certified by the
appointing authority. All interim certifications to carry weapons shall then be
brought before the council at the next regularly scheduled meeting in order
that the council can approve or reject the reserve officer's certification to
carry weapons.