15.560 Certificate of completion of training course required for appointment or

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retention as law enforcement telecommunicator -- Grandfather clause --

Annual in-service training course. (Effective until July 1, 2026)

(1)No person shall receive an official appointment on a permanent basis as a law

enforcement telecommunicator unless the person has previously been awarded a

certificate by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council attesting to such person's

satisfactory completion of a non-CJIS telecommunications academy. Every person

who is employed after June 24, 2003, as a law enforcement telecommunicator by

any law enforcement agency in this state, regardless of prior experience as a non-

CJIS telecommunicator, shall forfeit his or her position as such unless, within

twelve

(12)months from the date of his or her employment, he or she satisfactorily

completes the non-CJIS telecommunications academy and is awarded a certificate

attesting thereto. The council shall waive the training requirements listed in this

section for all law enforcement telecommunicators who are serving on July 15,

2006, and possess a certificate of completion of an approved law enforcement

telecommunicator basic training program.

(2)All non-CJIS telecommunicators, whether originally employed before or after July

15, 2006, shall successfully complete each calendar year an in-service training

course, appropriate to their job assignment and responsibility, of eight

(8)hours'

duration at a school certified or recognized by the Kentucky Law Enforcement

Council. Each in-service training course shall include a mental health component

which highlights post-traumatic stress disorder and work-induced stress, including

symptom recognition, treatment, and available resources.

(3)In the event of extenuating circumstances beyond the control of a non-CJIS

telecommunicator that prevent completion of training within the time specified, the

commissioner or the commissioner's designee may grant the non-CJIS

telecommunicator an extension of time, not to exceed one hundred eighty

days, in which to complete the training.

(4)A non-CJIS telecommunicator who fails to complete the training within a period of

twelve

(12)months and any extension of time granted under this section shall be

terminated by the employing agency and shall not be permitted to serve as a

telecommunicator with any governmental agency in the Commonwealth for a

period of one

(1)year.