Current through September 16, 2024
The minimum standard of training for officers in training
category I is successful completion of a basic course that includes 480 hours
of training in:
1. Law and legal
procedures, specifically:
(a) Civil
liability;
(b) Constitutional
law;
(c) Crimes against
persons;
(d) Crimes against
property;
(e) Juvenile
law;
(f) Laws governing
coroners;
(g) Laws relating to
arrest;
(h) Laws relating to drugs,
including, without limitation, current trends in drugs;
(i) Miscellaneous crimes;
(j) Probable cause;
(k) Rights of victims;
(l) Search and seizure;
(m) Traffic laws; and
(n) Use of force.
2. Patrol operations and investigations,
specifically:
(a) Abuse of elderly
persons;
(b) Accident
investigations;
(c) Basic patrol
procedures;
(d) Child abuse and
sexual abuse of a child;
(e)
Domestic violence and stalking;
(f)
Investigation of crime scenes, collection and preservation of evidence and
fingerprinting;
(g) Principles of
investigation;
(h) Techniques of
interviewing and interrogation;
(i)
The DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing course approved by
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and
(j) Unknown-risk and high-risk vehicle
stops.
3. Performance
skills, specifically:
(a) Health, fitness and
wellness;
(b) Interpersonal
communications;
(c) Operation of
emergency vehicles;
(d) Provision
of emergency first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
(e) Searching of buildings;
(f) Tactics for the arrest and control of
suspects, including, without limitation, methods for arrest and the use of less
than lethal weapons;
(g) Training
concerning active assailants;
(h)
Training in the use of firearms; and
(i) Writing of reports.
4. The functions of a peace officer,
specifically:
(a) Care of persons in
custody;
(b) Community
policing;
(c) Counter-terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction;
(d)
Courtroom demeanor, including, without limitation, the giving of
testimony;
(e) Crisis
intervention;
(f) Ethics in law
enforcement;
(g) Handling of
persons with mental illness;
(h)
History and principles of law enforcement;
(i) Management of stress;
(j) National Crime Information Center
procedures;
(k) Survival of peace
officers;
(l) Systems of criminal
justice; and
(m) The realities of
law enforcement.
5.
Course administration and examinations.
Added to NAC by Peace
Officers' Standards & Training Com., eff. 12-17-87; A 8-24-90; A by Peace
Officers' Standards & Training Comm'n by R102-99, 11-2-99; R100-02,
11-12-2002; R146-05, 12-29-2005; R003-07, 4-17-2008; R110-08,
8-26-2008
NRS
289.510,
289.600
