95.955 Training requirements -- Effect of failure to complete. - Kentucky Statutes

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95.955 Training requirements -- Effect of failure to complete. (1) All police officers and auxiliary police officers originally appointed or employed by a city, urban-county, or charter county government after July 14, 1992, shall, within
one (1) year of their appointment or employment, successfully complete at least six
hundred forty (640) hours of basic training administered or approved by the
Department of Criminal Justice Training. (2) All police officers and auxiliary police officers specified in subsection (1) of this section shall, upon completion of the basic training required in the same section,
successfully complete forty (40) hours of annual in-service training administered or
approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Training. (3) All police officers and auxiliary police officers appointed or employed before July 14, 1992, shall successfully complete forty (40) hours of annual in-service training
administered or approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Training. (4) In the event of extenuating circumstances beyond the control of the officer such as injury, illness, or personal tragedy which prevents the officer from completing the
basic or in-service training within the time specified in subsections (1) to (3) of this
section, the officer shall complete the training within one hundred eighty (180) days
after return to duty. Any police officer or auxiliary police officer who fails to
successfully complete the basic or in-service training within the specified time
period shall not be authorized thereafter to carry deadly weapons or make arrests
and may be dismissed from employment as a police officer or from membership on
the auxiliary police force. Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 480, sec. 13, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 428, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992.