| POST Rules: CHAPTER 1 |
| GENERAL PROVISIONS |
| Section 1. Statutory Authority. |
| Pursuant to W.S. 9-1-701 through 9-1-710 The Wyoming Peace
Officer's Standards and Training Commission is
required to adopt rules and standards which
shall be in accordance with provisions of the
Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act
(W.S.16-3-101 to 16-3-115). |
| Section 2. |
| Purpose. The purpose of the Peace
Officer's Standards and Training Commission is
to raise and maintain the level of competence
within the law enforcement community by: |
| (a) Establishing minimum
standards for employment and retention of peace
officer personnel; |
| (b) Establishing minimum
standards for the training and education of
peace officer personnel; |
| (c) Establishing minimum
standards for employment, training and education
of dispatchers; |
| (d) Establish course requirements
and continuing education requirements for
correctional officer training; |
| (e) Cooperating with the Board of
Coroners Standards in establishing course
requirements and continuing education
requirements for coroners; |
| (f) Promoting the planning and
development of a systematic career development
program for peace officer professionals by
providing and encouraging advanced or
specialized training, education, and
certification; |
| (g) Planning and promoting the
development and improvement of a comprehensive
program of education and training in the
administration of criminal justice; |
| (h) Conducting and stimulating
research and planning, by public and private
agencies, designed to improve education and
training in the administration of criminal
justice; |
| (i) Reviewing and evaluating the
recruitment, selection, education and training
of peace officer personnel and recommending
improvements; |
| (j) Maintaining liaison among
local, state, and federal agencies with respect
to peace officer and dispatcher education and
training, and |
| (k) Authorizing the issuance of
an identification card to retired and disabled
peace officers. |
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| Section 3. Definitions. |
| (a) Accredited college" means a
junior college, college or university accredited
as such by the Department of Education of the
state in which the junior college, college or
university is located, a recognized national
accrediting body, the state university in the
state in which the junior college or university
is located, or the Commission; |
| (b) "Commission" means the
Wyoming Peace Officer's Standards and Training
Commission, or employees thereof on its behalf; |
| (c) "Detention officer" means a
person who is employed by a county or
municipality on a full-time basis to care for,
supervise and control persons detained in a jail
or holding facility; |
| (d) "Detention officer training"
means an approved school or local detention
officer training program authorized by the
Commission to train detention officers; |
| (e) "Department" shall mean a
police department, sheriff's department, highway
patrol, state division of criminal
investigation, game and fish department, campus
police or any other law enforcement unit; |
| (f) "Director" means the
executive director of the Commission; |
| (g) "Inactive" means a status
assigned to a peace officer, detention officer
or dispatcher who has been certified by the
State of Wyoming but is no longer employed by a
municipal, county or political subdivision in
Wyoming; |
| (h) "Law enforcement unit" means
a public agency having police power and charged
with enforcing state criminal statutes or
municipal ordinances; |
| (i) "Peace officer" means a
person as defined by W.S. 7-2-101; |
| (j) "Peace officer training"
means an approved school or local peace officer
training program authorized by the Commission to
train peace officers; |
| (k) "Permanent appointment" shall
mean an appointment having permanent full time
status as a peace officer in a law enforcement
agency as described in these rules; |
| (l) "Part-time or reserve peace
officer" means any person having peace officer
authority acting less than full time in the
service of any county, municipality or state
agency, whether compensated or not; |
| (m) "School" shall mean any
school, college, university, academy, or local
training program which offers law enforcement
training. This term includes within its
meaning a combination of courses, curriculum,
instructors and facilities; |
| (n) "Temporary appointment" shall
mean an appointment as a peace officer in a
position which has a time limitation placed upon
it or is not of a continuing nature; |
| (o) "Dispatcher" means a person
who is employed by a state, county or municipal
law enforcement agency, fire service or licensed
ambulance service on a full or part-time basis,
to answer and dispatch calls for emergency and
non-emergency situations via designated law
enforcement and emergency telecommunications
equipment, and |
| (p) "The Act" means the Wyoming
Peace Officers Standards and Training Act,
W.S.9-1-701 through 9-1-710. |
| (q) “Certified correctional
officer” means a person who is employed by the
Wyoming department of corrections on a full-time
basis to care for, supervise, control and
maintain custody of persons confined in Wyoming
department of corrections institutions and who
has completed all requirements for certification
as a correctional officer under this act; |
| (r) “Correctional officer” means
a person who is employed by the Wyoming
Department of Corrections on a full-time basis
to care for, supervise and maintain custody of
persons confined in Wyoming Department of
Corrections institutions; |
| (s) “Correctional officer
training” means an approved Wyoming Department
of Corrections pre-service academy or other
correctional officer training program authorized
by the commission to train correctional officers
for the state; and |
| (t) “Part-time correctional
officer” means a person is employed by the
Wyoming Department of Corrections on a part-time
basis to care for, supervise and maintain
custody of persons confined in Wyoming
Department of Corrections institutions. |
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