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95.955 Training requirements -- Effect of failure to complete.
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All police officers and auxiliary police officers originally appointed or employed
by a city, urban-county, or charter county government after July 14, 1992, shall,
within one (1) year of their appointment or employment, successfully complete
at least six hundred forty (640) hours of basic training administered or
approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Training.
All police officers and auxiliary police officers specified in subsection (1) of this
section shall, upon completion of the basic training required in the same
section, successfully complete forty (40) hours of annual in-service training
administered or approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Training.
All police officers and auxiliary police officers appointed or employed before
July 14, 1992, shall successfully complete forty (40) hours of annual in-service
training administered or approved by the Department of Criminal Justice
Training.
In the event of extenuating circumstances beyond the control of the officer
such as injury, illness, or personal tragedy which prevents the officer from
completing the basic or in-service training within the time specified in
subsections (1) to (3) of this section, the officer shall complete the training
within one hundred eighty (180) days after return to duty. Any police officer or
auxiliary police officer who fails to successfully complete the basic or in-service
training within the specified time period shall not be authorized thereafter to
carry deadly weapons or make arrests and may be dismissed from
employment as a police officer or from membership on the auxiliary police
force.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 480, sec. 13, effective July 14, 2000. -Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 428, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992.
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