BILL NUMBER: AB 2642	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Furutani

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 13510.1 of the Penal Code, relating to
peace officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2642, as introduced, Furutani. Peace officers: certification.
   Existing law establishes in the Department of Justice a Commission
on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Existing law requires the
commission to adopt and, from time to time, amend rules establishing
minimum standards relating to physical, mental, and moral fitness
that must govern the recruitment of peace officers, as specified.
Pursuant to this authority, existing law requires the commission to
establish a certificate program for peace officers and for the
California Highway Patrol. Existing law authorizes persons who are
determined by the commission to be eligible peace officers to apply
for the certificates, provided they are employed by an agency that
participates in the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
program.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
provision authorizing persons who are determined by the commission to
be eligible peace officers to apply for the certificates.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13510.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   13510.1.  (a) The commission shall establish a certification
program for peace officers specified in Sections 13510 and 13522 and
for the California Highway Patrol. Certificates of the commission
established pursuant to this section shall be considered professional
certificates.
   (b) Basic, intermediate, advanced, supervisory, management, and
executive certificates shall be established for the purpose of
fostering professionalization, education, and experience necessary to
adequately accomplish the general police service duties performed by
peace officer members of city police departments, county sheriffs'
departments, districts, university and state university and college
departments, or by the California Highway Patrol.
   (c) (1) Certificates shall be awarded on the basis of a
combination of training, education, experience, and other
prerequisites, as determined by the commission.
   (2) In determining whether an applicant for certification has the
requisite education, the commission shall recognize as acceptable
college education only the following:
   (A) Education provided by a community college, college, or
university which has been accredited by the department of education
of the state in which the community college, college, or university
is located or by a recognized national or regional accrediting body.
   (B) Until January 1, 1998, educational courses or degrees provided
by a nonaccredited but state-approved college that offers programs
exclusively in criminal justice.
   (d) Persons who are determined by the commission to be eligible
peace officers may  make application   apply
 for the certificates, provided they are employed by an agency
 which   that  participates in the Peace
Officer Standards and Training (POST) program.
   (e) The commission shall have the authority to cancel any
certificate that has been obtained through misrepresentation or fraud
or that was issued as the result of an administrative error on the
part of the commission or the employing agency.