165.85 Law enforcement standards board.

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(1)Findings and policy. The legislature finds that the administration of criminal justice is of statewide concern, and that law enforcement work is of vital importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state and is of such a nature as to require training, education, and the establishment of standards of a proper professional character. The public interest requires that these standards be established and that this training and education be made available to persons who seek to become law enforcement, tribal law enforcement, jail or juvenile detention officers, persons who are serving as these officers in a temporary or probationary capacity, and persons already in regular service.

(2)Definitions. In this section and in s. 165.86 :

(ac)“Alzheimer’s disease” has the meaning given in s. 46.87

(a).

(ah)“Board” means the law enforcement standards board.

(ap)“Employment file” means all files relating to a person’s employment, including performance reviews, files related to job performance, internal affairs investigative files, administrative files, previous personnel applications, personnel-related claims, disciplinary actions, and all substantiated complaints and commendations, but does not include pay or benefit information, similar administrative data or information that does not relate to performance or conduct, or medical files unless the medical file relates to mental competency issues bearing on the person’s suitability for a law enforcement, tribal law enforcement, jail, or juvenile detention officer position.

(bc)“Fiscal year” has the meaning given in s. 20.902 .

(be)“Government agency” means any department, agency, or court of this state, or of a city, village, town, or county in this state.

(bg)“Jail” means a county jail, rehabilitation facility established by s. 59.53

(8)or county house of correction under s. 303.16 .

(bn)“Jail officer” means any person employed by any political subdivision of the state for the purpose of supervising, controlling or maintaining a jail or the persons confined in a jail. “Jail officer” includes officers regardless of whether they have been sworn regarding their duties or whether they serve on a full-time basis.

(br)“Juvenile detention facility” has the meaning given in s. 48.02

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(bt)“Juvenile detention officer” means any person employed by any political subdivision of the state or by any private entity contracting under s. 938.222 to supervise, control, or maintain a juvenile detention facility or the persons confined in a juvenile detention facility. “Juvenile detention officer” includes officers regardless of whether they have been sworn regarding their duties or whether they serve on a full-time basis.

(bv)“Law enforcement agency” means a governmental unit of this state or a political subdivision of this state that employs one or more law enforcement officers, and includes the Marquette University police department.

(bx)“Law enforcement instructor” means a person who is certified by the board to deliver board-approved program outcomes, course competencies, performance standards, and learning objectives in training programs and training schools for law enforcement officers, tribal law enforcement officers, jail officers, and juvenile detention officers.

(c)“Law enforcement officer” means any person employed by the state or any political subdivision of the state, for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances and who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances that the person is employed and sworn to enforce. “Law enforcement officer” includes a university police officer, as defined in s. 175.42

(b).

(cm)“Police pursuit” has the meaning given in s. 85.07

(a).

(d)“Political subdivision” means counties, cities, villages, towns, town sanitary districts, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts, and technical college districts.

(e)“Preservice student” means any person who meets the minimum recruitment qualifications set by the board and who enrolls in preparatory training under sub.

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(c)1. prior to employment as a law enforcement officer, tribal law enforcement officer, jail officer, or juvenile detention officer.

(f)“Recruit” means a law enforcement officer, tribal law enforcement officer, jail officer, or juvenile detention officer employed on a probationary or temporary basis, in compliance with the minimum recruitment qualifications set by the board.

(fh)“Tactical emergency medical services professional” means a licensed emergency medical services professional who has been endorsed by the department of health services as a person who provides medical services when operating as part of a law enforcement tactical team and operating with the prior written approval of the sheriff or chief of police for the jurisdiction in which the licensed emergency medical services professional is authorized to carry out his or her duties.

(fm)“Tribal law enforcement agency” has the meaning given in s. 165.83

(e).

(g)“Tribal law enforcement officer” means any of the following:

1. A person who is employed by a tribe for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime and enforcing the tribe’s laws or ordinances, who is authorized by the tribe to make arrests of Indian persons for violations of the tribe’s laws or ordinances, and who agrees to accept the duties of law enforcement officers under the laws of this state.

2. A conservation warden employed by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission who agrees to accept the duties of law enforcement officers under the laws of this state.