Provides that correction officers designated as peace officers employed as peace officers by another state or local agency shall not be required to complete duplicate training or instruction.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4610
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to training
requirements for certain peace officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2.30 of the criminal procedure
2 law, as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Every peace officer in the state of New York must successfully
5 complete a training program, a portion of which shall be prescribed by
6 the municipal police training council and a portion of which shall be
7 prescribed by [his or her] such officer's employer. The portion
8 prescribed by the municipal police training council shall be comprised
9 of subjects, and the hours each is to be taught, that shall be required
10 of all types or classes of peace officers. The hours of instruction
11 required by the municipal police training council shall not exceed one
12 hundred eighty, unless a greater amount is either required by law or
13 regulation, or is requested by the employer. Provided, however, that
14 correction officers designated as peace officers under subdivision twen-
15 ty-five of section 2.10 of this article who are employed as peace offi-
16 cers by another state or local agency shall not be required to complete
17 duplicate training or instruction in subjects which they have success-
18 fully completed for employment as a correction officer.
19 The segment prescribed by the employer for its employees shall be
20 comprised of subjects, and the hours each is to be taught, relating to
21 the special nature of the duties of the peace officers employed by it
22 provided, however, that when the subjects prescribed by the employer are
23 identical to the subjects in the training program required by the munic-
24 ipal police training council, the employer shall not be required to
25 provide duplicate training for those subjects.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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