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2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 15 - Department of law
15.550 Law enforcement telecommunicators -- Training program.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 15.550 (2021)
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15.550 Law enforcement telecommunicators -- Training program. (1) (2) (3) The basic course offered by the training program shall consist of forty (40) hours of instruction or training and shall consist of subjects appropriate for the basic training of law enforcement telecommunicators in the technique of emergency services communications. The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council shall approve all training curriculum and instructions. As a portion of the basic course offered, all telecommunicators who receive or dispatch emergency medical service calls shall be trained in telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) utilizing nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines. At a minimum this training shall incorporate recognition protocols for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, compression-only CPR instructions for callers, and continuing education as appropriate. Online training modules based on nationally recognized guidelines that at a minimum incorporate recognition protocols for out of hospital cardiac arrest and compression-only CPR shall be acceptable for telecommunicators who have not been through the training academies or who are not otherwise certified in these protocols. Effective: July 14, 2018 History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 65, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018. -- Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 112, sec. 6, effective July 15, 2016. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 315, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1986.
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