2006 Kansas Code - 74-5603

      74-5603.   Establishment; location; purpose and function; responsibility of director; rules and regulations; director of police training; additional personnel. (a) There is hereby created within the division of continuing education of the university of Kansas a law enforcement training center, to be located at the former site of the U. S. naval air station in Reno county. The purpose and function of such training center shall be the promotion and development of improved law enforcement personnel and procedures throughout the state, and the training center shall offer to qualified applicants, as defined in K.S.A. 74-5605 and amendments thereto, such programs and courses of instruction designed to fulfill this end.

      (b)   The director shall be responsible for the administration of the training center and for the operation of the programs thereunder. The director shall be responsible for determining the curriculum of the program, subject to such changes and modification as are directed by the law enforcement training commission. In consultation with the law enforcement training commission, the director may prescribe a code of conduct applicable to all trainees. Upon consultation with and approval of the law enforcement training commission, the director is authorized to adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary for the effective operation of the law enforcement training program.

      (c)   The dean, upon consultation with and the approval of the commission, shall appoint a director of police training. The dean shall also appoint such additional personnel as is deemed necessary to carry out the law enforcement training programs of the training center, and such personnel, whether administrative, instructional or research, shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act.

      History:   L. 1968, ch. 81, § 3; L. 1973, ch. 331, § 2; L. 1976, ch. 351, § 2; L. 1982, ch. 322, § 9; L. 1995, ch. 180, § 7; July 1.