0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1007
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT; AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE LAW
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0012|     ENFORCEMENT TRAINING ACT TO PROVIDE FOR CERTIFICATION OF LAW
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0013|     ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS EMPLOYED BY CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT
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0014|     AGENCIES ON FEDERAL INSTALLATIONS.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 29-7-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981,
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0018|     Chapter 114, Section 6, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "29-7-7.  DEFINITIONS.--For the purpose of the Law
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0020|     Enforcement Training Act:
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0021|               A.  "academy" means the New Mexico law enforcement
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0022|     academy;
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0023|               B.  "basic law enforcement training" means a course
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0024|     consisting of not less than four hundred hours of instruction
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0025|     in basic law enforcement training as required by the Law
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0001|     Enforcement Training Act;
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0002|               C.  "board" means the New Mexico law enforcement
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0003|     academy board;
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0004|               D.  "conviction" means an adjudication of guilt or a
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0005|     plea of no contest and includes convictions that are suspended
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0006|     or deferred;
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0007|               E.  "director" means the director of the academy;
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0008|               F.  "in-service law enforcement training" means a
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0009|     course of instruction required of all certified peace officers
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0010|     designed to train and equip all police officers in the state
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0011|     with specific law enforcement skills and to ensure the
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0012|     continuing development of all police officers in the state. 
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0013|     The training and instruction shall be kept current and may be
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0014|     conducted on a regional basis at the discretion of the
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0015|     director;
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0016|               G.  "police officer" means any commissioned employee
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0017|     of a law enforcement agency that is part of or administered by
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0018|     the state or any political subdivision of the state <u>or a
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<u></u>0019| <u>    civilian law enforcement agency on a federal installation</u> and
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0020|     which employee is responsible for the prevention and detection
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0021|     of crime or the enforcement of the penal or traffic or highway
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0022|     laws of this state.  The term specifically includes deputy
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0023|     sheriffs.  Sheriffs are eligible to attend the academy and are
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0024|     eligible to receive certification as provided in the Law
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0025|     Enforcement Training Act.  As used in this subsection,
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0001|     "commissioned" means an employee of a law enforcement agency
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0002|     who is authorized by a sheriff or chief of police to apprehend,
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0003|     arrest and bring before the court all violators within the
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0004|     state; and
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0005|               H.  "certified regional law enforcement training
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0006|     facility" means a law enforcement training facility within the
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0007|     state certified by the director, with the approval of the
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0008|     academy's board of directors, that offers basic law enforcement
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0009|     training and in-service law enforcement training that is
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0010|     comparable to or exceeds the standards of the programs of the
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0011|     academy."
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0012|          Section 2.  Section 29-7-7.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981,
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0013|     Chapter 114, Section 7, as amended) is amended to read:
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0014|          "29-7-7.1.  IN-SERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING--
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0015|     REQUIREMENTS--ELIGIBILITY.--
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0016|               A.  In-service law enforcement training consists of
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0017|     at least forty hours of academic instruction, approved by the
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0018|     board, for each certified police officer during each twenty-
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0019|     four month period of employment or service with a political
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0020|     subdivision <u>or civilian police agency of a federal
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<u></u>0021| <u>    installation</u>.  The first training course shall commence no
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0022|     later than twelve months after graduation from an approved
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0023|     basic law enforcement training program.
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0024|               B.  All certified police officers who are eligible
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0025|     for in-service training shall, during each twenty-four month
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0001|     period of employment, complete a minimum of forty hours of in-
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0002|     service law enforcement training in courses approved by the
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0003|     board.  All certified police officers shall provide proof of
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0004|     completing in-service law enforcement training requirements to
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0005|     the director no later than March 1 of the year in which the
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0006|     requirements must be met.  The director shall provide annual
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0007|     notice to all certified police officers regarding in-service
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0008|     law enforcement training requirements.  Failure to complete in-
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0009|     service law enforcement training requirements may be grounds
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0010|     for suspension of a certified police officer's certification. 
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0011|     A police officer's certification may be reinstated by the board
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0012|     when the police officer presents the board with evidence of
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0013|     satisfying in-service law enforcement training requirements."
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