New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 10 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 29 - LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY
Part 8 - OFFICER TRANSITION TRAINING PROGRAM
Section 10.29.8.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Reserve officer" means a commissioned person who is not a certified police officer by the New Mexico law enforcement academy that assists law enforcement agencies in the state of New Mexico.

B. "Certified officer" means a commissioned person who assists law enforcement agencies in the state of New Mexico who has met all the requirements for law enforcement certification as established by the Article 7, New Mexico Law Enforcement Training Act, NMSA 1978 Section 29-7-1 to 29-7-13 and is commissioned and employed by a recognized New Mexico law enforcement agency.

C. "Transition officer student" means a person that has made application and been approved by the director for obtaining law enforcement certification through the police officer transition training program. This person may not be employed as a certified police officer by any law enforcement agency in this state until the person satisfies the qualifications for certification set forth in 29-7-6, Subsection A, and is awarded a certificate by the director attesting to that fact.

D. "Police officer transition training program" means a program approved by the New Mexico law enforcement academy equivalent to the existing standards established under 10.29.9.8 NMAC that allows for police officer certification.

E. "Certification by prior basic reserve training" means the validation and approval of a comparable basic training program for prior reserve training conducted in New Mexico as recognized and approved by the director through December 31, 2011. Effective January 1st 2012 no credit will be given for law enforcement certification purposes for any basic reserve training conducted outside of the officer transition training program.