52:17B-70 - Police training commission established; members; terms
52:17B-70 Police training commission established; members; terms.
5.There is hereby established in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety a Police Training Commission whose membership shall consist of the following persons:
a.Two citizens of this State who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for terms of three years commencing with the expiration of the terms of the citizen members, other than the representative of the New Jersey Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, now in office.
b.The president or other representative designated in accordance with the bylaws of each of the following organizations: the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police; the New Jersey State Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, Inc.; the New Jersey State League of Municipalities; the New Jersey State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police; the County Prosecutors' Association of New Jersey; the Sheriffs' Association of New Jersey; the Police Academy Directors Association; the New Jersey County Jail Wardens Association; and the New Jersey Juvenile Detention Association.
c.The Attorney General, the Superintendent of State Police, the Commissioner of Education, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, the Commissioner of Corrections, and the Chairman of the State Parole Board, ex officio, or when so designated by them, their deputies.
d.The Special Agent in Charge of the State of New Jersey for the Federal Bureau of Investigation or his designated representative.
L.1961, c.56, s.5; amended 1964, c.94; 1971, c.41, s.1; 1975, c.163, s.1; 1985, c.491, s.2; 1988, c.176, s.3; 1992, c.15; 2005, c.268; 2009, c.30.
52:17B-71.Powers, responsibilities, duties of commission
6. The commission is vested with the power, responsibility and duty:
a. To prescribe standards for the approval and continuation of approval of schools at which police training courses authorized by this act and in-service police training courses shall be conducted, including but not limited to presently existing regional, county, municipal and police chief association police training schools or at which basic training courses and in-service training courses shall be conducted for State and county juvenile and adult corrections officers and juvenile detention officers;
b. To approve and issue certificates of approval to such schools, to inspect such schools from time to time, and to revoke any approval or certificate issued to such schools;
c. To prescribe the curriculum, the minimum courses of study, attendance requirements, equipment and facilities, and standards of operation for such schools. Courses of study in crime prevention may be recommended to the Police Training Commission by the Crime Prevention Advisory Committee, established by section 2 of P.L.1985, c.1 (C.52:17B-77.1). The Police Training Commission may prescribe psychological and psychiatric examinations for police recruits while in such schools;
d. To prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at such schools and to certify, as qualified, instructors for approved police training schools and to issue appropriate certificates to such instructors;
e. To certify police officers, corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers who have satisfactorily completed training programs and to issue appropriate certificates to such police officers, corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers;
f. To advise and consent in the appointment of an administrator of police services by the Attorney General pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1961, c.56 (C.52:17B-73);
g. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1985, c.491.)
h. To make such rules and regulations as may be reasonably necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purposes and objectives of this act;
i. To make a continuous study of police training methods and training methods for corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers and to consult and accept the cooperation of any recognized federal or State law enforcement agency or educational institution;
j. To consult and cooperate with universities, colleges and institutes in the State for the development of specialized courses of study for police officers in police science and police administration;
k. To consult and cooperate with other departments and agencies of the State concerned with police training or the training of corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers;
l. To participate in unified programs and projects relating to police training and the training of corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers sponsored by any federal, State, or other public or private agency;
m. To perform such other acts as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out its functions and duties as set forth in this act;
n. To extend the time limit for satisfactory completion of police training programs or programs for the training of corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers and juvenile detention officers upon a finding that health, extraordinary workload or other factors have, singly or in combination, effected a delay in the satisfactory completion of such training program;
o. To furnish approved schools, for inclusion in their regular police training courses and curriculum, with information concerning the advisability of high speed chases, the risk caused thereby, and the benefits resulting therefrom;
p. To review and approve new standards and course curricula developed by the Department of Corrections for both basic and in-service training of State and county corrections officers and juvenile detention officers. These courses for the State corrections officers and juvenile detention officers shall be centrally provided at the Corrections Officers' Training Academy of the Department of Corrections. Courses for the county corrections officers and juvenile detention officers shall also be centrally provided at the Corrections Officers' Training Academy unless an off-grounds training program is established by the county. A county may elect to establish and conduct a basic training program for corrections officers and juvenile detention officers seeking permanent appointment in that county. The Corrections Officers' Training Academy shall develop the curriculum of the basic training program to be conducted by a county;
q. To administer and distribute the monies in the Law Enforcement Officers Training and Equipment Fund established by section 9 of P.L.1996, c.115 (C.2C:43-3.3) and make such rules and regulations for the administration and distribution of the monies as may be necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purpose for which the fund was established.
L.1961,c.56,s.6; amended 1967, c.252, s.2; 1971, c.321, s.3; 1974, c.186, s.2; 1979, c.102; 1985, c.1, s.1; 1985, c.491, s.3; 1988, c.176, s.4; 1995, c.280, s.55; 1996, c.115, s.6.