New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle U - Division of Criminal Justice Services
Chapter I - Law Enforcement Services
Subchapter A - Municipal Police Training Council
Article 2 - Municipal Police Training Program
Part 6018 - Basic Course For Correction Officers
Section 6018.8 - Issuance of equivalency certificates

(a) A person who has been appointed a correction officer by a municipality who was formerly employed as a correction officer by the New York State Department of Correctional Services or a city within the State of New York with a population of more than one million may apply to the commissioner to substitute satisfactory completion of correction officer basic training completed in connection with such employment in satisfaction of all or part of the requirements of section 6018.3 of this Part.

(b) The commissioner shall review and evaluate all such applications and may require the applicant to submit such additional documentation as he or she shall deem necessary. If, upon review and evaluation of such application, the commissioner determines that a program of correction officer basic training completed by the applicant meets or exceeds all or part of the minimum standards prescribed in section 6018.3 of this Part, the commissioner may authorize such training to be substituted for such requirements of the basic course as he or she shall deem appropriate. The commissioner shall certify, in writing, the extent to which all or part of the curriculum of the basic course may be waived and noted deficiencies must be satisfactorily completed at a basic course approved by the commissioner, within the period of time prescribed in section 6018.7 of this Part.

(c) Applicants for equivalency certificates shall be subject to the same limitations and requirements as prescribed in section 6018.7 of this Part and article 2 of the Criminal Procedure Law.