Common use of Training Units Clause in Contracts

Training Units. Twenty (20) classroom hours or its equivalent of approved police training shall equal one unit. Regular, periodic, on-the-job training programs shall not be considered as fulfilling this requirement. Neither shall the special training required for Crime Scene Investigators and Advanced Officers or other similar mandatory training (e.g., First Aid, C.P.R. Recertification, etc.) nor the basic introductory training or similar training given an employee during his or her probationary period be given credit for the awarding of training units. 1. When college credit is awarded for special training in police work, such units of credit may be counted for either training units or educational units as the officer may select. 2. Training units may be earned by the assignment to and performance of sworn police officer duties (other than uniformed field patrol work in Field Operations Division) with one (l) full and continuous month of such assignment equal to one (l) training unit. Credit for experience in assignments other than patrol work in Field Operations shall not be given, unless at least three (3) full and continuous months of such assignment have been completed. Not more than six (6) units of training through assignment to non-patrol duties may be earned in any one (l) year and not more than fifteen (15) such training units by assignment shall be used in meeting the criteria for the Police Career Development Program designations as set out in this Article.

Training Units. Twenty (20) classroom hours or its equivalent of approved police training shall equal one unit. Regular, periodic, on-the-job training programs shall not be considered as fulfilling this requirement. Neither shall the special training required for Crime Scene Investigators and Advanced Officers or other similar mandatory training (e.g., First Aid, C.P.R. Recertification, etc.) nor the basic introductory training or similar training given an employee during his or her their probationary period be given credit for the awarding of training units. 1. When college credit is awarded for special training in police work, such units of credit may be counted for either training units or educational units as the officer may select. 2. Training units may be earned by the assignment to and performance of sworn police officer duties (other than uniformed field patrol work in Field Operations Division) with one (l1) full and continuous month of such assignment equal to one (l1) training unit. Credit for experience in assignments other than patrol work in Field Operations shall not be given, unless at least three (3) full and continuous months of such assignment have been completed. Not more than six (6) units of training through assignment to non-patrol duties may be earned in any one (l1) year and not more than fifteen (15) such training units by assignment shall be used in meeting the criteria for the Police Career Development Program designations as set out in this Article.