1997 Florida Code
TITLE XLVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 943 Department Of Law Enforcement  
943.135   Requirements for continued employment.

943.135  Requirements for continued employment.--

(1)  The commission shall, by rule, adopt a program that requires all officers, as a condition of continued employment or appointment as officers, to receive periodic commission-approved continuing training or education. Such continuing training or education shall be required at the rate of 40 hours every 4 years. No officer shall be denied a reasonable opportunity by the employing agency to comply with this section. The employing agency must document that the continuing training or education is job-related and consistent with the needs of the employing agency. The employing agency must maintain and submit, or electronically transmit, the documentation to the commission, in a format approved by the commission. The rule shall also provide:

(a)  Assistance to an employing agency in identifying each affected officer, the date of his or her employment or appointment, and his or her most recent date for successful completion of continuing training or education;

(b)  A procedure for reactivation of the certification of an officer who is not in compliance with this section; and

(c)  A remediation program supervised by the training center director within the geographic area for any officer who is attempting to comply with the provisions of this subsection and in whom learning disabilities are identified. The officer shall be assigned nonofficer duties, without loss of employee benefits, and the program shall not exceed 90 days.

(2)  Continuing training or education required under this section may not be used to qualify an officer for salary incentive payments provided under s. 943.22.

(3)  For the purposes of this section, the employing agency is responsible for notifying the commission of any omission of any approved training not included in the records of the commission.

(4)  The commission is authorized to develop this program for implementation on July 1, 1985, for full-time, part-time, or auxiliary law enforcement officers and correctional officers and a program for correctional probation officers for implementation on July 1, 1987.

History.--s. 9, ch. 84-258; s. 73, ch. 85-62; s. 44, ch. 86-183; s. 2, ch. 86-286; ss. 5, 6, ch. 87-186; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 10, ch. 93-252; s. 1632, ch. 97-102.

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