2016 New York Laws
COR - Correction
Article 2 - (Correction) DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
10 - Parole officers.

  10. Parole officers. 1. Employees in the department who perform the
  duties of supervising inmates released on community supervision shall be
  parole officers.
2. No person shall be eligible for the position of parole officer  who
  is under twenty-one years of age or who does not possess a baccalaureate
  degree  conferred  by  a  post-secondary  institution  accredited  by an
  accrediting agency recognized by the United States office of  education,
  or  who  is  not  fit  physically,  mentally and morally. Parole officer
  selection shall be based on definite  qualifications  as  to  character,
  ability and training with an emphasis on capacity and ability to provide
  a balanced approach to influencing human behavior and to use judgment in
  the  enforcement  of the rules and regulations of community supervision.
  Parole officers shall be persons likely to exercise a strong and helpful
  influence upon persons placed under their  supervision  while  retaining
  the goal of protecting society.
3.  The  commissioner,  acting  in  cooperation with the civil service
  commission,  shall  establish  standards,  preliminary  requisites   and
  requisites to govern the selection and appointment of parole officers.
* 3-a.  In  order to best effectuate the provisions of subdivision two
  of this section the commissioner shall, pursuant to subdivision  one  of
  section seventy of the civil service law, transfer any employee who held
  the  position of facility parole officer I or facility parole officer II
  on January first, two thousand twelve and  who  wishes  to  accept  such
  transfer,  to  fill  any  open  position in the parole officer or senior
  parole officer title. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply  to
  facility  parole  officer  I or facility parole officer II employees for
  the period that the certificate attesting to satisfactory completion  of
  the  training requirements for peace officer eligibility awarded to such
  employee remains valid pursuant to the provisions of subdivision six  of
  section  2.30  of  the  criminal procedure law. In no instance shall the
  department appoint a newly hired employee to a parole officer or  senior
  parole   officer   position  where  an  employee,  eligible  under  this
  subdivision, is willing and  able  to  transfer  to  such  position.  An
  employee  transferred  under  this  subdivision  shall  in  no  instance
  displace an incumbent employee in the parole officer  or  senior  parole
  officer  title  or  a  person who is on a preferred list or reemployment
  roster for the position of  parole  officer  or  senior  parole  officer
  pursuant to section eighty-one or eighty-one-a of the civil service law.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2015
4.  A  parole  or  warrant  officer, in performing or in attempting to
  perform an arrest pursuant to and in conformance with the provisions  of
  article one hundred forty of the criminal procedure law, shall be deemed
  to  have  performed such actions, relating to such arrest, in the course
  of employment in the department for purposes of disability or death from
  any injuries arising therefrom. The provisions of this subdivision shall
  apply whether or not such parole or warrant officer was on duty for  the
  department  at  the  time  of  performing such actions or performed such
  actions outside of his  or  her  regular  or  usual  duties  within  the
  department.