Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 22 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Part III - Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Subpart 4 - Peace Officers
Chapter 47 - Standards and Training
Section III-4701 - Definitions

A. The following terms, as used in these regulations, shall have the following meanings.

Governmental Entity -any board, authority, commission, department, office, division, or agency of the state or any of its local political subdivisions.

Law Enforcement Training Course -a basic or advanced course of study certified by the Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), for the purpose of educating and training persons in the skills and techniques of a peace officer in the discharge of his duties.

Peace Officer-any full-time, reserve, or part-time employee of the state, a municipality, a sheriff or other public agency, whose permanent duties actually include the making of arrests, the performing of searches and seizures, or the execution of detection of criminal warrants, and is responsible for the prevention or detection of crime or for the enforcement of the penal, traffic, highway laws of this state, but not including any elected or appointed head of a law enforcement department. Peace officer also includes those sheriffs deputies whose duties include the care, custody, and control of inmates, police officers within the military department, state of Louisiana, and security personnel employed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Training Center -any POST accredited school, academy, institute, or any place of learning whatsoever, which offers or conducts a law enforcement or corrections training course.