Report Title:

Public Safety; Police

Description:

Establishes a public safety and police training academy in the department of public safety.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2628

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO A TRAINING ACADEMY WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 353C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"Part . Public safety and police training academy

§353C- State and county public safety training academy established. Within the department of public safety there is hereby created and established a state and county public safety and police training academy.

The director shall have supervision of the state and county public safety and police training academy and shall establish standards for admission and a course of training. The director shall report to the governor and legislature a plan for a state and county public safety and police training academy not later than December 31, 2004. The director shall adopt all necessary rules under chapter 91 relative to the admission, education, physical standards, and personal character of the trainees and such other rules as are not inconsistent with law.

Applicants to the state and county public safety and police training academy shall pay no application fee.

Trainees shall pay to the department an amount equal to the actual cost of meals consumed at the state and county public safety and police training academy and the actual cost of any training uniforms that remain the personal property of the trainees.

All fees and payments received by the department pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the general fund.

§353C- Location of school. The state and county public safety and police training academy shall be maintained by the State and located in Waipahu, Oahu at the present location of the Honolulu police department training academy, unless the director, with the consent of the governor, determines a more suitable alternate site.

§353C- Supervision of school. The director shall have supervision of the state and county public safety and police training academy and shall establish a course of training and adopt all necessary rules relative to the education, physical standards, and personal character of the candidates and trainees and such other rules as are not inconsistent with law.

§353C- Persons admissible to school. No person shall be admitted as a candidate to the state and county public safety and police training academy unless the person is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State and is at least twenty-one years old; provided that no person shall be admitted who has not been certified by a physician as being physically and mentally sound on an examination made within one month prior to the acceptance of the person's candidacy.

§353C- Sponsorship of police training candidates by counties. Candidates meeting the physical, mental, and educational requirements of this part shall be admitted as police training candidates only upon the request of the chief of police of the county of which the prospective candidate is a resident, and every such application by the chief of police shall be accompanied by a statement that the candidate has prospects, within the reasonable future, of a permanent appointment to the police force of the county sponsoring the candidate.

§353C- Certificate of completion of training course. Upon the satisfactory completion of the prescribed course of training, the director shall issue to each candidate a certification of the candidate's qualifications for appointment.

§353C- Expenses of school; compensation of candidates. No tuition fee or any other charge shall be assessed against any county for the training of any candidate and the expense of that training shall be borne by the State. The legislature shall annually appropriate such sum or sums as may be necessary for the proper maintenance of the state and county public safety and police training academy."

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, for the establishment of a state and county public safety and police training academy.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of public safety for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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