                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMPLIANCE WITH MINIMUM TRAINING STANDARDS BY OFFICERS EMPLOYED AFTER JULY 1,
1971, BY OFFICERS APPOINTED UNDER § 56-353 AFTER JULY 1, 1982, AND BY PART-TIME
OFFICERS (§ 9.1-114)

Every full-time law-enforcement officer employed after July 1, 1971, officers
appointed under the provisions of § 56-353 after July 1, 1982, and every
part-time law-enforcement officer employed after July 1, 1989, shall comply with
the compulsory minimum training standards established by the Board within a
period of time fixed by the Board in accordance with the Administrative Process
Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.). However, any part-time law-enforcement officer
employed for eighty, or fewer, compensated hours in a calendar year, or any
noncompensated auxiliary deputy sheriff, or noncompensated auxiliary police
officer who carries a firearm in the course of his employment shall be required
to have completed basic firearms training and received ongoing in-service
firearms training, as defined by the Board. The Board may require
law-enforcement agencies of the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions to
submit rosters of their personnel and pertinent data with regard to the training
status of such personnel.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 632, § 9-180; 1982, c. 419; 1989, c. 233; 2001, c. 844.