2006 Kansas Code - 74-5604a

      74-5604a.   Extension of program; certification of schools; part-time officer training; pretraining evaluation; rejection of applicant. (a) The director may establish a program for periodically extending the law enforcement training and instruction of the training center throughout the state on a regional basis. The director also shall certify annually the training schools of state and local law enforcement agencies providing a course of law enforcement training for full-time police officers or law enforcement officers of not less than 320 hours of instruction, and whose training programs also satisfy the qualifications and standards promulgated by the director after approval of the commission. The director shall establish a course in basic law enforcement training of not less than 80 hours for part-time police officers or law enforcement officers, approved by the commission, to be provided at the training center and certified state and local law enforcement training schools. In addition, after the general election of each election year and prior to January 1 of the next succeeding year, and at such other times as the director deems necessary, the director shall commence a training course for persons elected to the office of sheriff at the preceding general election.

      (b)   The director shall conduct a pretraining evaluation of applicants for admission to the course for law enforcement officers conducted by the training center or to any certified state or local law enforcement training school to assure that each applicant is qualified to serve as a law enforcement officer. The director shall adopt minimum standards, which shall receive prior approval by the commission, to be considered in the pretraining evaluation. The director shall advise the city, county or state agency, railroad, school district or community college authorizing the applicant to attend the training center or certified state or local law enforcement training school of the results of the pretraining evaluation. The director, with approval of the commission, may reject an applicant to the training center who does not meet the minimum pretraining standards.

      History:   L. 1982, ch. 322, § 3; L. 1983, ch. 256, § 3; L. 1987, ch. 277, § 3; L. 1995, ch. 180, § 8; July 1.