(1)
Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, for the purpose of raising the level of competence of local law enforcement officers, to adopt rules establishing minimum standards relating to the physical, mental, and moral fitness that shall govern the recruitment of these officers.
This bill would require the commission to review minimum training and selection standards for peace officers who are employed by a school district and members of a security or police department of a school district, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by January 1, 1998.
(2)
Existing law authorizes state aid from the Peace Officers’ Training Fund to be provided for training expenses of full-time regularly paid peace officer employees of eligible agencies from cities, counties, or districts.
This bill would provide that money appropriated in a specific item of the Budget Act of 1996 for the training program for law enforcement personnel operated by the Simon Weisenthal Center-Museum of Tolerance shall be allocated to eligible agencies for reimbursement of training expenses for regular and sworn officers and nonsworn personnel who have contact with the public, if the center gives priority to training sworn officers.
(3)
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.