Bill > A876

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This bill requires the Police Training Commission in the Department of Law and Public Safety to establish a self-defense training course for law enforcement officer recruits and an in-service self-defense course for law enforcement officers. Under the bill, the basic course for law enforcement officer recruits would include one and one-half hours of instruction conducted three times per week while the law enforcement officer recruit is enrolled in basic training and a final, 40 hour self-defense course at the end of basic training. In addition, a law enforcement officer for a State, county, or municipal law enforcement department is required to annually undergo 48 hours of in-service self-defense training. The instructor providing in-service training are required to meet the same training requirements established for law enforcement officer recruits under the bill. The time expended on in-service training would not be included in a law enforcement officer's overtime compensation. The bill appropriates $250,000 to the Police Training Commission for the purpose of establishing the self-defense basic course and in-service training course.

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Brian Bergen (R)*,  Robert Clifton (R),  Beth Sawyer (R), 

Motion To Table (42-31-0) (Greenwald) (on 10/27/2022)

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