Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Title 79 - LAW ENFORCEMENT - POLICE STANDARDS ADVISORY COUNCIL
Chapter 15 - LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION
Section 79-15-005
Current through March 20, 2024
Instructors who teach basic academy training courses that are part of the State basic curriculum shall be certified in accordance with this chapter. There are three levels of instructor certification: general, professional, and legal.
005.01 General Instructor Certification
A general instructor certification pertains to those individuals who have received instructor level training in a specific skill area as approved by the Council. The general certificate will be applicable in only those areas where the instructor has received such training.
005.02 General Instructor Minimum Qualifications
005.03 Professional Instructor Certification
A professional instructor certification pertains to those who instruct in areas that are more cognitive in nature and require some level of experience to be able to instruct, i.e., criminal investigations, patrol techniques, and human understanding. A professional certification will require the applicant to demonstrate experience in the subject area and to have taken and completed an instructor development course of at least 24 hours. An officer may request a waiver of the instructor development course if he or she can exhibit experience in training and or higher education equivalent to having completed an instructor development course.
005.04 Professional Instructor Minimum Qualifications
005.05 Legal Instructor Certification
A legal instructor certificate requires that the instructor has received his/her Juris Doctor Degree and instructs legal courses such as criminal elements, arrest, search, and seizure, and use of force.
005.06 Legal Instructor Minimum Qualifications
005.07 Background
While no background investigation is required, an instructor must be recommended by the academy director and in making such recommendations, the academy director shall consider the reputation, conduct, stability and ability of the person being recommended.