PERMANENT RULES
TRAINING COMMISSION
Date of Adoption: September 10, 2003.
Purpose: WAC 139-05-200 Requirement of basic law enforcement training. The change would provide consistency in training requirements for fully commissioned officers to attend the basic law enforcement academy. Currently, officers who are fully commissioned but work only part time are not required to attend the basic academy; however, they exercise the same authority as fully commissioned, full-time officers.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 43.101.080.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-15-029 on July 9, 2003.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
Thirty-one days after filing.
September 16, 2003
Sonja Hirsch
for Sharon M. Tolton
Deputy Director
OTS-6408.2
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 00-17-017, filed 8/4/00,
effective 9/4/00)
WAC 139-05-200
Requirement of basic law enforcement
training.
(1) All ((full-time)) commissioned law enforcement
((employees)) officers of a city, county, or political
subdivision of the state of Washington, except volunteers and
reserve officers whether paid or unpaid and officers of the
Washington state patrol, unless otherwise exempted by the
Washington state criminal justice training commission, shall
as a condition of continued employment successfully complete a
basic law enforcement academy sponsored or conducted by the
commission, or obtain a certificate of equivalent basic
training from the commission. This requirement of basic law
enforcement training shall be met within the initial six-month
period of law enforcement employment, unless otherwise
extended by the commission.
(2) Law enforcement personnel exempted from the requirement of subsection (1) of this section shall include:
(a) Individuals holding the office of sheriff of any county on September 1, 1979;
(b) Auxiliary and reserve personnel; and
(c) Commissioned personnel.
(i) Who have been granted an administrative exemption by the commission, provided that the initial grant and continuing effect of such exemption shall be governed by the following:
(A) No police chief or sheriff of any agency with ten or fewer commissioned officers shall be eligible to receive such exemption;
(B) Any request for such exemption shall be submitted to the commission on an approved form with a criminal records check completed by the Washington state patrol and, in any instance wherein the requestor is a police chief, such request shall be cosigned by requestor's appointing authority;
(C) Any individual receiving such exemption may not engage in patrol or other general enforcement activity on a usual or regular basis but shall limit such involvement to that required for supervision, agency management, or manpower replacement on an emergency or exigent basis;
(D) Any approved administrative exemption shall remain in effect for the duration of the exemptee's term of service within the position upon which such exemption is based or until the nature of exemptee's primary duties and responsibilities change from administrative to general enforcement; and
(E) Any approved administrative exemption may be revoked by the commission at any time upon its finding that the conditions of such exemption are not being met or the basis for such exemption no longer exists;
(ii) Whose initial date of full-time, regular and commissioned law enforcement employment within the state of Washington precedes January 1, 1978; or
(iii) Who have been ((certified)) awarded a certificate
of completion of the basic law enforcement academy or the
basic law enforcement equivalency in accordance with the
requirement of subsection (1) of this section, and thereafter
have engaged in regular and commissioned law enforcement
employment without break or interruption in excess of
twenty-four months duration.
(3) Each law enforcement agency of the state of Washington, or any political subdivision thereof, except the Washington state patrol, shall immediately notify the commission by approved form of each instance wherein a commissioned officer begins continuing and regular employment with that agency. Such notification shall be maintained by the commission and shall be utilized by the commission for the subsequent scheduling, notification and enrollment required for compliance with the basic law enforcement training requirement.
(4) Failure to comply with the above requirement of basic law enforcement training shall result in notification of noncompliance, by the commission, on approved form, to:
(a) The individual in noncompliance;
(b) The head of his/her agency;
(c) The civil service commission having jurisdiction of such agency;
(d) The judges and clerks of the municipal, district, and superior courts in which said agency is located;
(e) The state auditor's office; and
(f) Any other agency or individual, as determined by the commission.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 43.101.080. 00-17-017, § 139-05-200, filed 8/4/00, effective 9/4/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.101.080(2). 89-13-024 (Order 14D), § 139-05-200, filed 6/13/89; 87-19-104 (Order 14-D), § 139-05-200, filed 9/18/87; 86-19-021 (Order 1-B), § 139-05-200, filed 9/10/86.]