Sec. 7-294g. State and local police training programs to provide training re domestic violence, child abuse, and suicide intervention procedures. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 7-294g. State and local police training programs to provide training re domestic violence, child abuse, and suicide intervention procedures. (a) Each police basic or review training program conducted or administered by the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety, by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council established under section 7-294b or by a municipal police department in the state shall provide a minimum of two hours of training on the subject of domestic violence that includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1) Enforcement of criminal laws applicable in cases involving domestic violence; (2) techniques for handling incidents of domestic violence which promote the safety of the victim and the officer and which reduce the likelihood of recurrence; (3) organizations in the state that offer aid or shelter to victims of domestic violence; (4) applicable procedures in the prosecution of cases involving domestic violence; (5) orders issued by a court pursuant to chapter 815a. The Division of State Police, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council or municipal police departments, in consultation with the Connecticut Task Force on Abused Women, shall develop a program curriculum and shall submit such curriculum to the task force for approval. Individual shelter programs in the task force may also conduct domestic violence training in conjunction with any police training program.

      (b) Each police basic training program conducted or administered by the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety, by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council established under section 7-294b or by a municipal police department in the state shall include a course on the recognition and management of child abuse and suicide intervention procedures.

      (P.A. 85-581; P.A. 89-172; P.A. 95-108, S. 7.)

      History: P.A. 89-172 added Subsec. (b) to include in each police basic training program a course on the recognition and management of child abuse and suicide prevention procedures; P.A. 95-108 renamed Municipal Police Training Council as Police Officer Standards and Training Council (Revisor's note: The word "by" preceding references to "the Police Officer Standards and Training Council" in Subsecs. (a) and (b) was added editorially by the Revisors for grammatical correctness and conformity with wording of Sec. 7-294h).

      Cited. 13 CA 124.