27169523, 11B-27.002 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register

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Notice: 27169523

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

Division:

Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission

Chapter:

CERTIFICATION AND EMPLOYMENT OR APPOINTMENT

Overview

RULE:

11B-27.002	Certification, Employment or Appointment, Reactivation, and Terminating Employment or Appointment of Officers
11B-27.00212	Maintenance of Officer Certification
11B-27.00213	Temporary Employment Authorization

PURPOSE:

Sub-paragraph 11B-27.002(3)(a)15., F.A.C.: Incorporates the revised Affidavit of Separation, form CJSTC-61, to add “Line of Duty Death” as a separation reason to allow agencies to distinguish between an officer killed in the line of duty and an officer’s death due to non-duty related causes.
Subsection 11B-27.00212(4), F.A.C.: Incorporates the revised Mandatory Retraining Report, form CJSTC-74, pursuant to the 2022 Florida Legislature which passed legislation to mandate retraining for law enforcement officers in health and wellness principles, effective July 1, 2023.
Paragraph 11B-27.00212(5)(f), F.A.C.: Adds a training requirement in Officer Health and Wellness Principles for law enforcement officers, pursuant to the 2022 Legislature which passed legislation to add the training requirement to the 40-hour mandatory retraining requirement for law enforcement officers.
Paragraph 11B-27.00213(2)(b), F.A.C.: Incorporates the revised Firearms Performance Evaluation, form CJSTC-4, to ensure more uniformity with the remaining high liability forms, renaming it the Handgun Performance Evaluation, and reflect the requirement of passing handgun proficiency evaluations and the revised qualification course of fire, and completion of active threat/shooter drills; inclusion of EOT students; clarification that only basic recruit and cross-over students are required to pass an end-of-course examination; and allows the training school to record when an EOT student fails to demonstrate the proficiency skills; and removes the option to use a revolver for handgun qualification and the requirement to qualify with a long gun.

SUMMARY:

Added training requirement in Officer Health and Wellness Principles for law enforcement officers; revised Affidavit of Separation, form CJSTC-61; Mandatory Retraining Report, form CJSTC-74; and Firearms Performance Evaluation, form CJSTC-4, renaming it the Handgun Performance Evaluation form.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

943.03(4), 943.12(1) FS.

LAW:

943.12(3), 943.13(11), 943.131, 943.133, 943.135, 943.139, 943.1395(3), 943.17(1)(a), 943.1701, 943.1715, 943.1716, 943.253 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

5/30/2023 Vol. 49/104

COMMENTS:

From 5/30/2023 To 6/20/2023 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

Ref-14210 CJSTC-4;Firearms Performance Evaluation;11B-27.00213(2)(b)
Ref-14216 CJSTC-61;Affidavit Of Separation;11B-27.002(3)(a)15.
Ref-14220 CJSTC-74;Mandatory Retraining Report;11B-27.00212(4)
Ref-14226 CJSTC-207;Agency New Hire Report;11B-27.002(3)

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