LD 637
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1. Required. As a condition to the continued employment of any
person as a full-time law enforcement officer by a municipality, a
county, the State or any other nonfederal employer, that person
must successfully complete, within the first 12 months of
employment, a any basic training course required and approved by
the board. Thereafter, as a condition of continued employment as a
full-time law enforcement officer, the officer must satisfactorily
maintain the basic certification by completing the recertification
requirements prescribed by the board. The board, under extenuating
and emergency circumstances in individual cases, may extend that
period for not more than 90 days. The board also, in individual
cases, may waive the basic training requirement when the facts
indicate that an equivalent course has been successfully completed.
This section does not apply to any person employed as a full-time
law enforcement officer by a municipality on September 23, 1971 or
by a county on July 1, 1972.

 
Sec. 6. 25 MRSA §2804-E, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 395, Pt. O,
§5, is further amended to read:

 
1. Required. As a condition to the continued employment of a
person as a law enforcement officer with the power to make
arrests or the authority to carry a firearm in the course of duty
by a municipality, county, the State or other nonfederal
employer, that person must successfully complete a minimum number
of training units of in-service recertification training as
prescribed by the board.

 
SUMMARY

 
The bill deletes references to training standards for part-
time and full-time law enforcement officers approved by the Board
of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. This bill
requires levels of certification to be based on the officer's
demonstration of having acquired specific knowledge and skills
directly related to job performance rather than full-time or
part-time employment.

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