Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) The Board or Department may make or
encourage studies of any aspect of corrections, parole and probation,
telecommunications, regulatory specialist, emergency medical dispatch, fire, or
police administration, including the stimulation of research by public and
private agencies which shall be designed to improve the Criminal Justice
System.
(2) The Board or Department
may cooperate and consult with counties, municipalities, agencies of this
State, other governmental agencies, and with universities, colleges, community
colleges, and other institutions concerning the development of criminal justice
training schools and programs or courses of instruction.
(3) The Board or Department may cooperate and
consult with official bodies or individuals charged by law with the
responsibility for corrections, parole and probation, regulatory specialist,
telecommunications, emergency medical dispatch, fire or police selection and
training standards in other states.
(4) The Board or Department may periodically
publish or recommend that other governmental agencies publish curricula,
manuals, lesson plans, brochures, newsletters, and other materials to aid
departments in achieving the objectives of the Act.
(5) The Department may direct, operate, or
sponsor training schools and set reasonable rules and regulations for the
operation and use by trainees.
(6)
Recognition of Career Service. The Department may provide a recognition of
service award for a certified public safety officer who has separated from
their employing agency. The recognition of service award recognizes the public
safety officer for their years of service to the state of Oregon as a
certifiable public safety officer.
(a) The
following requirements must be met in order for a public safety officer to be
eligible for a recognition of service award:
(A) The employing agency must notify the
Department of the public safety officer's separation from certifiable
employment in accordance with OAR 259-008-0020.
(B) The employing agency must submit a
request for a recognition of service award through a Department approved
submission process. The request must be submitted by the certified public
safety officer's last employing agency within one year following the public
safety officer's separation from certifiable employment.
(C) The public safety officer must have
completed a minimum of 20 years of employment in a certifiable position as a
public safety officer in Oregon, or if the public safety officer sustained a
permanent disability that prevents them from returning to their certifiable
position, must have completed a minimum of five years of certifiable employment
as a full-time public safety officer in Oregon. Years of certifiable employment
are calculated using the parameters for certifiable experience and employment
outlined in OAR 259-008-0060 and must be met before or on the effective date of
the separation.
(b) A
public safety officer whose separation from certifiable employment results in,
or occurs during, a Department review pursuant to OAR 259-008-0300 is
ineligible to receive a recognition of service award until a final
determination has been made regarding their certification as a public safety
officer. If the final determination results in denial, suspension or revocation
of certification, the public safety officer will be ineligible to receive a
recognition of service award.
(c)
The Department will only provide one recognition of service award to a
qualifying public safety officer. A public safety officer who has been issued a
recognition of service award is not eligible to receive additional recognition
of service awards from the Department for subsequent periods of
service.
(d) The contents of a
recognition of service award are determined by the Department.
(e) The provisions for a recognition of
service award replace the prior provisions for the issuance of a retirement
card and apply to requests for a recognition of service award received by the
Department after May 1, 2018. The Department will not provide a recognition of
service award to a public safety officer who has previously been issued a
retirement card.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
181A.410
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
181A.410
