2006 Kansas Code - 74-5607a

      74-5607a.   Certification for permanent appointment; annual training; provisional appointment. (a) No person shall receive a permanent appointment as a full-time police officer or law enforcement officer, unless such officer has been awarded a certificate attesting to satisfactory completion of a course of not less than 320 hours of accredited instruction at the training center or at a certified state or local law enforcement training school or has been awarded such a certificate for not less than the number of hours of instruction required by the Kansas law enforcement training act at the time such certificate was issued or received a permanent appointment as a full-time police officer or law enforcement officer prior to July 1, 1969, or was appointed a railroad policeman pursuant to K.S.A. 66-524, and amendments thereto, on or before January 1, 1982. No person shall receive a permanent appointment as a part-time police officer or law enforcement officer, unless such officer has been awarded a certificate attesting to the satisfactory completion of the basic course of not less than 80 hours of accredited instruction in law enforcement at the training center or at a certified state or local law enforcement training school.

      (b)   Beginning the second year after certification, every full-time police officer or law enforcement officer shall complete annually 40 hours of law enforcement education or training in subjects relating directly to law enforcement. Failure to complete such training shall be grounds for suspension from work without pay until such training is completed. The director with the approval of the commission shall adopt rules and regulations regarding such education or training. Every city, county and state agency shall annually send to the director certified reports of the completion of such education or training. The director shall maintain a record of the reports in the central registry.

      (c)   Subject to the provisions of subsection (d):

      (1)   Any person who is appointed or elected as a police officer or law enforcement officer and who does not hold a certificate as required by subsection (a) may be elected or appointed as an officer on a provisional basis for a period of not more than one year. Any person appointed as a police officer or law enforcement officer on a provisional basis who does not receive the certificate required under subsection (a) within one year following the date of the person's original election or appointment shall forfeit such office or position at the end of such one-year period. Any person appointed as a police officer or law enforcement officer on a provisional basis who does not receive the certificate required under subsection (a) within one year following such original appointment shall not be reappointed as a police officer or law enforcement officer on a provisional basis within one year following the date on which such person last served as a police officer or law enforcement officer.

      (2)   Any police officer or law enforcement officer who does not complete the education or training required by subsection (b) by the date such education or training is required to have been completed shall be subject to revocation or suspension of certification and loss of the officer's office or position.

      (d)   The director may extend the one-year time period for the 320 hour basic-reciprocity school or 80 hour part-time school and may extend, waive or modify the annual continuing education requirement, when it is shown that the failure to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) or (b) was not due to the intentional avoidance of the law.

      History:   L. 1982, ch. 322, § 4; L. 1988, ch. 306, § 2; L. 1995, ch. 180, § 10; July 1.