Current through September 16, 2024
The minimum standard of training for officers in training
category II is successful completion of a basic course that includes 200 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 relating to
arrest;
(g) Laws relating to drugs,
including, without limitation, current trends in drugs;
(h) Miscellaneous crimes;
(i) Probable cause;
(j) Rights of victims;
(k) Search and seizure; and
(l) Use of force.
2. Operations and investigations,
specifically:
(a) Abuse of elderly
persons;
(b) Child abuse and sexual
abuse of a child;
(c) Domestic
violence and stalking;
(d)
Investigation of crime scenes, collection and preservation of evidence and
fingerprinting;
(e) Principles of
investigation; and
(f) Techniques
of interviewing and interrogation.
3. Performance skills, specifically:
(a) Health, fitness and wellness;
(b) Interpersonal communications;
(c) Provision of emergency first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
(d)
Tactics for the arrest and control of suspects, including, without limitation,
methods for arrest and the use of less than lethal weapons;
(e) Training concerning active
assailants;
(f) Training in the use
of firearms; and
(g) Writing of
reports.
4. The
functions of a peace officer, specifically:
(a) Care of persons in custody;
(b) Counter-terrorism and weapons of mass
destruction;
(c) Courtroom
demeanor, including, without limitation, the giving of testimony;
(d) Crisis intervention;
(e) Ethics in law enforcement;
(f) Handling of persons with mental
illness;
(g) History and principles
of law enforcement;
(h) Management
of stress;
(i) National Crime
Information Center procedures;
(j)
Survival of peace officers;
(k)
Systems of criminal justice; and
(l) 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; R024-97,
10-1-97; A by Peace Officers' Standards & Training Comm'n by R102-99,
11-2-99; R146-05, 12-29-2005; R003-07, 4-17-2008; R110-08,
8-26-2008
NRS
289.510,
289.600
