Legislative Training Mandates

LAW SECTION

HOURS

COURSE TITLE

* = requires POST certification

Bold type = POST specified curriculum in Regulation 1081.

REQUIRED FOR

OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION

B&P 25755

160 

Alcoholic Beverage Control, Narcotic Enforcement – Narcotic Investigation Course* and Narcotic Investigation Field Training Program (see information in Reg. 1081)

All peace officer investigators of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

The 160 hours of training is satisfied by combination of the 80-hour POST certified Narcotics Investigation Course* plus the 80-hour Narcotics Investigation Field Training Program.  POST curriculum specified for the Narcotic Investigation Course only.

*The Narcotics Inv. Course may be satisfied by a single training course, or by completion of two or more POST-certified courses (totaling a minimum of 80 hours) which include the Narcotic. Inv. curriculum. POST curriculum required.

Refer to Regulation 1081 for information on Narcotic Inv. Field Training Programs.

PC 832

64

Arrest and Firearms*
(comprised of two modules – Arrest Module (40 hours), and Firearms Module (24 hours).

All peace officers described in Chapter 4.5 of the Penal Code.

This requirement must be met prior to the exercise of the powers of a peace officer.

Training can be satisfied by a stand- alone course or completion of a larger course which includes the Arrest and Firearms curriculum and testing, e.g. Regular Basic Course.  POST reserves the right to make this determination.  IVD format is available and meets the requirements.

Refer to Regulation 1080 for “3-year rule” on this training.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 832.1

40

Aviation Security*

Any … airport policeman, or … of a city, county, city and county or district must complete within 90 days of hire or shall not continue to have peace officer powers after 90 days until satisfactory completion.

Hours were increased to 40 effective August 1, 2000.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 832.3

664

Basic Course (Regular)*

Entry level requirement for all peace officers in the POST program except Level II and Level III reserve officers, custodial deputy sheriffs appointed pursuant to 830.1(c), coroners, and peace officers whose primary duties are investigative (Reg. 1005).

This requirement must be met prior to the exercise of the powers of a peace officer.

There is a waiver process for the Regular Basic Course.

There is a 3-year rule and 6-year rule for requalification specified in Commission Regulation 1008. 

POST curriculum specified.

Cal OSHA Regulation 5193

See Cal OSHA reg.

Bloodborne Pathogens
(LD34)

All public and private employees who are exposed to blood in the workplace.

Training included in the Regular Basic Course (RBC).

Annual refresher training required.

PC 832.2
(school police reserves)

PC832.3(g) (school police)

32

Campus Law Enforcement

School police reserve officers and school police officers.

School police first employed by a K-12 public school district or CA Comm. College district before 7-1-99 must complete no later than 7-1-02. Other school police must complete within 2 years of hire date.

No deadline specified for school police reserve officers.

POST curriculum specified.

H&S1797.187

4

Carcinogenic
Materials (LD41)

POST requires for all peace officers who must complete the Regular Basic Course.

Curriculum included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 12403

4

2

4

Chemical Agents
(LD 35)

Module A

Module B

Module C

All peace officers as defined in Chapter 4.5 of Title 3 of Part 2 commencing with Penal Code section  830.

Completion of this training is required for peace officers purchasing, possessing, transporting, or using tear gas or a tear gas weapon.

Training that satisfies the requirements of PC 12403 for peace officers who will be using aerosol chemical agents and who are expected to use a gas mask in a chemical environment is included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC (referred to as Modules A & B in Regulation 1081).

The addition of a Module C (as specified in Reg. 1081) satisfies the training requirement for peace officers responsible for the deployment of tactical chemical agent munitions.

These modules, A B & C, refer to the structure of the training and are in no way associated with reserve training modules.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13517

40

Child Abuse Investigation (LD 30)

Mandates Commission to include training in the Basic Course by July 1, 1979.  Any individual completing the Regular Basic Course after this date has completed the training.  No mandate placed on officers.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC. 

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.2

PC 13515.25

4

8

Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness (LD 37)

Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities

Mandates Commission to include training in the Basic Course by July 1, 1990.  Any individual completing the Regular Basic Course after this date has completed the training.

Continuing training for peace officers, but not mandated.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.

POST curriculum specified.

POST curriculum specified.

GC 8607

Disaster Response

All emergency response personnel

The Office of Emergency Services mandated to develop course in coordination with POST and others.

No POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519

8

Domestic Violence* (LD25)

Mandates Commission to include training in the Basic Course.

Mandates various classifications of peace officers to complete training by certain dates (see PC 13519).  Obsolete now because time periods have expired.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC. Officers who did not complete in Basic Course must complete supplementary training.

Prior to January 1, 1986, peace officers who did not complete in the Regular Basic Course were required to complete supplementary training with various deadlines depending on individual’s peace officer category.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519(g)

2

Domestic Violence Update

Each law enforcement officer below the rank of supervisor who is assigned to patrol duties and would normally respond to domestic violence shall complete every two years.

For all other officers local law enforcement agencies are encouraged to include update training but not mandatory. Update training available as a POST-certified course.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13515

2

Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse*

Every city police officer or deputy sheriff at a supervisory level or below who is assigned field or investigative duties shall complete within 18 months of assignment.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13518

21

First Aid/CPR

Every city police officer, sheriff or deputy, marshal or deputy, CHP officer, or police officer of a district authorized by statute to maintain a police department, except those whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative.

Mandates the Commission to include training in the Basic Course.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.

Curriculum standards set by Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) (Reference California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 9, Chapter 1.5, sections 100005-100028.)

 PC 13518(a)

12

First Aid/CPR Refresher
(LD 34)

Peace officers subject to initial training shall complete refresher training.

Frequency and content as prescribed by EMSA.

PC13519.5

No hours specified

Gang and Drug Enforcement
(LD12, 38)

Mandates the Commission to implement course of training. Statute specifies training is for “appropriate” officers.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.  Also available as POST Telecourse training.  Other POST-certified technical training available. No deadline specified for completion.

No POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.6

4

Hate Crimes
(LD 42)

Mandates the Commission to include training in the Regular Basic Course.  Specifically states that training is for peace officers designated in 830.1 and 830.2.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.  No deadline specified for completion.

No POST curriculum specified.

CF 910.120(q)(6)

Set by OES

Hazardous Materials
Response

Training mandate varies based on the duties and functions of the responder in an emergency response organization. 

OES sets hour and curriculum standards for training.

No POST curriculum specified.

PC 872(b)

1

Hearsay Testimony*
(LD 17)

All peace officers with less than five years of service and who wish to testify to hearsay evidence in preliminary hearings.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.  Also available in video training.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13515.55

4

High Technology Crimes*

City police and deputy sheriff supervisors assigned to field or investigative duties.

Must be completed by 1-1-00 or within 18 months of assignment to supervisory duties.  POST curriculum specified.

PC629.94

Interception of Wire, Pager, and Cellular Communications

Those who apply for orders authorizing the interception of private wire, electronic digital pager, or cellular …(see statute)

Training not developed.

VC40802

8

Laser Operator*

Peace officers issuing speed violation citations using laser or any other electronic speed measuring devices and where a traffic and engineering survey is beyond five years.

Prerequisite Radar Operator Course.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.1

4

or

2
in service

Missing Persons*
(LD 27)

Peace officers and dispatchers of a local police department, sheriff’s department or California Highway Patrol

Included in the Regular Basic Course and P.S. Dispatcher’s Basic Course. If Regular Basic Course or Public Safety Dispatcher’s Basic Course was completed prior to 1-1-89, completion of supplementary in-service training is required.

POST curriculum specified.

VC 40802

24

Radar Operator*

Peace officers issuing speed violation citations using radar speed measuring devices and where a traffic and engineering survey is beyond five years.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.4 (a)

No hours specified

Racial and Cultural Diversity
(LD42)

All peace officers specified in Penal Code section 13510(a)

[Note: this includes reserves].

Racial and Cultural Diversity is included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC. A POST-certified Cultural Diversity Course is offered for officers who did not receive training in the Regular Basic Course.

No POST curriculum specified.

PC13519.4 (f)

5

Racial Profiling*

All law enforcement officers

Incumbent officers are suggested to complete by July 2004.

Included in Regular Basic Course after 7-1-03.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.4 (i)

2

Racial Profiling Refresher*

All peace officers specified in Penal Code section 13510(a) [Note this includes reserves].

Required every five years or on a more frequent basis if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing racial and cultural trends.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 832.6

340  LI

228  LII

162 LIII

Reserve Level I Module*

Reserve Level II Module*

Reserve Level III Module (2 parts)*

Level I Reserve officers must complete all three modules (730 hours) or the Regular Basic Course. Level II Reserve officers must complete Reserve Level II and III Modules (390 hours).  Reserve Level III officers must complete Reserve Level III Module (162 hours).

Training must be completed before being assigned duties which include the exercise of peace officer powers.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13516(c)

40

Sexual Assault Investigation*
(LD 30)

Investigator specialists who handle cases of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse of children within six months of the date of assignment. 

Partial curriculum included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC, but does not satisfy mandate for specialists.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.7(b)

PC 13519.7 (c)

2

Sexual Harassment*
(LD 42)

Peace officers who completed the Regular Basic Course before January 1, 1995, shall complete supplementary training. 

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC.

Supplementary training is available for peace officers who did not complete in the Regular Basic Course.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 12020 (b)(1)

16

16

Shotgun (Long/Short Barrel)
(LD 35)
[see comment A]

Rifle
(Long/Short Barrel)

[see comment B]

Peace officers of local police departments, sheriffs departments, marshals departments, California Highway Patrol or Department of Justice and reserve officers of these departments.



Completion of this training exempts these officers from the provisions of  PC12020(a).

Comment A – This training requirement is satisfied by completing the Regular Basic Course or Reserve Training Modules I or II.  Previously satisfied by now obsolete Reserve Modules A, B, C, and D.

Comment B – Prerequisite for Rifle training is completion of the Regular Basic Course or  Reserve Training Modules I , II and III, or Reserve Modules A, B, C, and D.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.05

2

Stalking Course*

Peace officers of local police departments, sheriff’s dept., Dept. of Parks & Recreation, Universities of CA, CA State Univ. Also peace officers defined in PC 830.31(d) and 830.32 (a & b).

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.3

2

Sudden Death of Infants, Investigation of*
(LD 30)

All peace officers specified in PC13510 (a), who are assigned to patrol or investigations.

Included in the Regular Basic Course and SIBC. Supplementary training required for in-service officers who did not receive in the Basic Course.

POST curriculum specified.

PC 13519.8(a)

2

Vehicle Pursuit Training I*
(LD 19)

Peace officers of a local police department, sheriff’s department or California Highway Patrol who are below middle management rank and who completed the Regular Basic Course prior to 7-15-95.

Included in the Regular Basic Course.

Penal Code 13519.8 encourages periodic update training.

POST curriculum specified.

PC13519.8(c)

1

Vehicle Pursuit Training II*

Middle managers and above of local police departments, sheriff departments or California Highway Patrol who completed the Regular Basic Course prior to 7-15-95.

This training can be satisfied by completion of either High Speed Vehicle Pursuit Training I or II.

POST curriculum specified.