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-4750 - In Service Training and Certification

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code III-4750

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Firearms

1. Annual Requalification
a. To maintain firearm certification, an officer shall be required to requalify yearly on the POST firearms qualification course, demonstrating at least 80 percent proficiency. Scores shall be computed and verified by a POST certified firearms instructor.

b. If the period between qualifying exceeds 13 months for any reason, the officer will be required to successfully complete the pre-academy firearms course conducted by a POST certified firearms instructor, unless the officer had been in the military for more than five years and was exercising his veteran reemployment rights.

B. Minimum Training Hours

1. Each calendar year, all certified level 1 and 2 officers must successfully complete, at a minimum, the required 20 hours of in-service training hours to maintain certification, unless waived by the council. This requirement includes "grandfathered" peace officers. These training requirements begin the first calendar year after receiving certification or successful completion of "refresher" training.

2. The training hours must include, at a minimum:
a. legal (2 hours)

b. firearms (8 hours)

c. officer survival (4 hours)

d. electives (6 hours)

C. Failure to complete training requirements

1. If peace officer fails to complete the required number of training hours during a calendar year, the POST certification for the officer will be temporarily suspended. Once an officer's certification has been suspended, that officer shall be given 90 calendar days to correct his training deficiency, at which point the suspension shall be lifted. If an officer fails to correct his training deficiency within the 90-day probationary period, that officer's certification shall be revoked under provision of §4731(B)(3) Training completed while an officer's certification is suspended shall not count toward that officer's training requirements for the current year. To reactivate the certification, the officer must attend and successfully complete a "refresher" course as prescribed by the council.

2. Peace officers called to active military duty will not be required to complete in-service training requirements missed while performing the active duty service.

D. Training Coordinators

1. Each law enforcement agency shall designate a training coordinator to manage the training affairs of their agency's officers throughout the year. The agency head may serve as the training coordinator.

2. The training coordinators are required to use the POST designated learning management system (LMS) to schedule and document their officer's training.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 15:1204 and R.S. 15:1207.

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