POST Monthly Report

March 2022

Keeping you up to date on POST projects

Strategic Communications and Research Bureau Hosted Dispatcher Job Analysis Workshop in Anaheim

On March 15-16, 2022, The Commission on Peace Officer Standard and Training (POST) Strategic Communications and Research Bureau hosted a two-day workshop in Anaheim, CA. Ten subject matter experts convened to review the results of the dispatcher job analysis survey, determine relevant core items, discuss the establishment of a critical task index cut-off value, and perform task linkages to knowledge, skills, abilities, and traits.

The purpose of a job analysis is to identify and define critical job activities performed by entry-level public safety dispatchers. This job analysis is part of POST’s comprehensive review of the practice of dispatchers in California. The results of this job analysis will be used to validate the content of the POST Entry-Level Dispatcher Selection Test Battery, serve as the foundation for updating the Public Safety Dispatchers’ Basic Course, and aid in any future dispatcher research projects.

The final validation report is expected to be completed by June 30, 2022. Questions regarding the Dispatcher Job Analysis may be directed to Irene Wong-Chi, Senior Examination and Research Consultant with the Strategic Communications and Research Bureau, at (916) 227-4259.

Free Senate Bill (SB) 2 Certification Workshop Sessions

POST is pleased to announce a free series of workshops focused on the regulatory changes and legal requirements adopted with the implementation of the peace officer certification scheme as outlined in the Kenneth Ross Jr. Police Decertification Act of 2021 (SB 2).

For more information, and/or to register for these workshops beginning in early April 2022, please view the Peace Officer Certification (SB 2) Workshop Q & A Sessions flyer. Questions regarding the workshops may be submitted to SB2@post.ca.gov.

Basic Training Bureau’s Basic Course Certification Review (BCCR) in San Bernardino

During the week of March 21-25, 2022, the POST Basic Training Bureau (BTB) conducted a Basic Course Certification Review (BCCR) of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department law enforcement training academy.

The BCCR is an in-depth review of Basic Course presenters regarding the certification of their courses. The BCCR ensures the quality, integrity, and safety of entry-level peace officer training in California. POST ensures all certified Basic Course presenters are in compliance with Penal and Government Codes related to POST, Commission Regulations, Commission Procedures, and the Training and Testing Specifications.

For questions regarding the BCCR process, please contact Bill Lewis, Staff Services Manager with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-4856.

Contra Costa County Probation BCCR

On March 22-23, 2022, BTB also recently conducted a Penal Code 832 BCCR with Contra Costa County Probation. If you are interested in more information regarding this BCCR, please contact Carrie Hollar, Law Enforcement Consultant, with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-4661.

Basic Training Bureau Hosts Basic Course Consortium in San Diego

On March 16-17, 2022, BTB hosted the Basic Course Consortium in San Diego (Del Mar), California. This is a bi-annual seminar that is designed to foster dialogue between the Basic Course presenters and serves as an opportunity for the BTB to introduce and discuss current trends, best practices, legislative changes, and proposed updates to Commission Regulations. Members from the BTB provided informational updates to support all aspects of the Basic Courses.

During this Consortium, representatives from the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training provided a presentation on recent research-based changes that have been implemented in their Basic Training Courses. Additionally, attendees received a presentation highlighting the Orange County Sheriff’s Academy, Physical Training Program.

Questions regarding the Basic Course Consortium may be directed to Jim Grottkau, Bureau Chief with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-3935.

San Bernardino Unified School Police Department Annual Compliance Review

Recently, San Bernardino Unified School Police Department completed their annual compliance review with POST conducted by Matthew O'Deane, Law Enforcement Consultant. To learn more about this agency please visit San Bernardino Unified School Police Department.

Public Safety Dispatchers’ Basic Course Workshop in Anaheim

On March 17-18, 2022, POST hosted a two-day workshop where Public Safety Dispatcher subject matter experts updated LD101 – Criminal Justice System and completely redesigned LD102 – Introduction to Law. The updates in the course are additionally supported by the data collected in the Job Task Analysis which was conducted by the Strategic Communications and Research Bureau at POST.

The collaboration between the Strategic Communications and Research Bureau and the Management Counseling and Projects Bureau has been instrumental in creating a solid foundation for the upcoming updates and new content creation of the POST Public Safety Dispatchers’ Basic Course and future dispatch projects.

If you are interested in being considered as a subject matter expert for additional POST Public Safety Dispatcher projects, please contact Jennifer Dwyer, Staff Services Manager/Project Manager with the Management Counseling and Projects Bureau, at (916) 227-0477.

Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) Gang Investigations Course Update Project

On March 7-8, 2022, the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) Gang Investigations Course Update Project was commenced with a workshop in San Diego, CA. This 40-hour ICI Foundation Specialty course was originally developed for detectives in approximately 2010, and provides them with the information and skills needed to successfully investigate gang-related crimes.

The POST Training Program Services Bureau and the course presenters (Government Training Agency, State Center Regional Training Facility at Fresno City College, and Los Angeles Police Department) participated in the workshop. The purpose of the project is to take a fresh look at the course curriculum and update it where appropriate, to ensure the training continues to be relevant and contemporary.

For additional information please visit the ICI Program. Questions may also be directed to Gerald Fernandez, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Training Program Services Bureau, at (916) 227-3933.

Revised Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Tutorial Video Released

In continued efforts to make it easier to navigate the online Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system, POST has revised its Introduction to POST EDI video. The tutorial was expanded and updated for 2022 and features new on-screen demonstrations of the most common EDI functions and now includes a companion user guide with additional tips. The video is formatted to allow EDI users to view the program in larger “Agency” or “Presenter” whole segments, or to view specific topics within each section. EDI provides authorized users with varying levels of access to process records within the POST database, on behalf of their agency or course presenter, and offers a number of specific functions a user may utilize.

Questions about the new tutorial video may be directed to Mike Barnes, Senior Consultant with the Learning Technology Resources Bureau, at (916) 227-3454. For EDI questions and technical support, visit EDI Contact Us.

Instructor Standards Advisory Council Meeting

On March 22, 2022, the Instructor Standards Advisory Council (ISAC) held its first meeting of the year via video teleconference. Police Education Designer and Facilitator, Russ Norris, was elected as this year’s Chair, and Sergeant Daniel Chui of the San Francisco Police Department as the Vice-Chair. Updates on the Quality Assessment Program and the Academy Instructor Certification Course were provided to the group along with an update on the development progression of the POST Instructor Training Self-Paced course.

Council members discussed how best to market the POST Instructor Development Institute, which is a multi-track, multi-level program that develops professionalism in the delivery of law enforcement instruction. Currently, there is a need for more candidates for the Master Instructor Development Program. ISAC would like to get this message out to agencies throughout the state.

Another topic introduced at the meeting was continuing education for academy instructors. Everyone agreed that facilitation is a perishable skill and needs to be practiced periodically in order to provide the best training to our law enforcement professionals. This subject will be further discussed at the next meeting.

Questions regarding this article may be directed to TPS-support@post.ca.gov or the bureau assistant desk at (916) 227-4885.

New Self-Paced Course Beyond Bias: Supervisor Support

A new self-paced course is now available for POST Learning Portal users, Beyond Bias: Supervisor Support. This course does NOT meet the mandate for Racial & Identity Profiling Update Training in California Penal Code Section 13519.4.

This is an optional elective course for law enforcement supervisors. Learners will have a chance to review strategies and self-assess how agencies manage the impact of bias, connect with the community, build a positive culture, and recognize responsibilities to prevent and report profiling. To learn more, check out the course commercial video.

For questions about the course, please contact Charday Alcaraz, Instructional Designer/Project Manager with the Learning Technology Resources Bureau, at (916) 227-5562.

Meet the New POST Employees

Mark Flores

Law Enforcement Consultant I

Training Delivery and Compliance Bureau (Initial Rotation)

Mark comes to us from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department where he was the Unit Commander for the Department’s Training Bureau. Prior to taking over the Training Bureau, he commanded the Recruit Training Unit for the Regular Basic Courses (academies) and the Advanced Officer Training Unit instructed in-service training.

Legislative Update

Status of Current Legislation

The following is a list of the legislation POST is monitoring during the 2022-23 legislative session. This is not a complete list of legislation that could affect law enforcement. (Updated 3/25/2022)

View a detailed report on legislative matters pertaining to law enforcement and POST.

List of current legislation
Bill # and Author	Title and Summary	Status of Bill
AB 655 Assembly Member Kalra	California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act Current law requires that a candidate for a peace officer position be of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation. This bill would require that background investigation to include an inquiry into whether a candidate for specified peace officer positions has engaged in membership in a hate group, participation in any hate group activity, or advocacy of public expressions of hate, as specified, and as those terms are defined. The bill would provide that certain findings would disqualify a person from employment.	Amended: 1/24/2022 Status: 2/1/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 662 Assembly Member Rodriguez	Mental health: dispatch and response protocols: working group Would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group, as specified, no later than July 1, 2022, to examine the existing dispatch and response protocols when providing emergency medical services to an individual who may require evaluation and treatment for a mental health disorder. The bill would require the working group to develop recommendations for improvements to those dispatch and response protocols and recommend amendments to existing law, including, but not limited to, the provisions governing involuntarily taking an individual into temporary custody for a mental health evaluation and treatment. The bill would require the working group to submit periodic reports to the Legislature every 6 months to update the Legislature on its progress, and to submit a final report of its recommendations to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2024.	Status: 1/25/2022-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 1639 Assembly Member Voepel	Firearms Would require a police officer of the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police or a port warden or a port police officer of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles to complete the live-fire training qualification at least twice a year instead of at least once every 6 months in order to be exempt from the prohibitions on unsafe handguns.	Amended: 2/22/2022 Status: 3/8/2022-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 1836 Assembly Member Maienschein	Peace officers: mental health Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Under existing law, the commission administers the Innovations Grant Program for the purpose of fostering innovations in training and procedures for law enforcement officers. Current law requires the grant program to develop and provide wellness programs for law enforcement officers, among other things.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to draft legislation to establish a grant program for the purpose of addressing officer wellness and mental health support.	Introduced: 2/7/2022 Status: 2/8/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee March 10
AB 1947 Assembly Member Ting	Hate crimes: law enforcement policies Current law requires any local law enforcement agency that adopts or updates a hate crime policy to include specified information in that policy, including information on bias motivation. Current law requires the Department of Justice to collect specified information relative to hate crimes and to post that information on its internet website. This bill would require each local law enforcement agency to adopt a hate crimes policy. The bill would require those policies to, among other things, include instructions on considering the relevance of specific dates and phrases when recognizing whether an incident is a hate crime, to include a supplemental suspected hate crime form. The bill would require every state and local agency to use specified definitions for the term “protected characteristics.” The bill would require each law enforcement agency to report their hate crime policy to the Department of Justice, as specified. The bill would require the department to post information regarding the compliance and noncompliance of agencies that are required to provide information relative to hate crimes to the department.	Introduced: 3/16/2022 Status: 3/23/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
AB 2062 Assembly Member Salas	Local law enforcement hiring grants Would, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act and until January 1, 2029, require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enforcement agencies that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the Legislature and the Governor’s office on the efficacy of the program, as prescribed, on or before July 1, 2028.	Introduced: 2/14/2022 Status: 2/24/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2229 Assembly Member Rivas	Peace officers: minimum standards: bias evaluation Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, that peace officers be evaluated by a physician and surgeon or psychologist and found to be free from any physical, emotional, or mental condition that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer. This bill would require that evaluation to include bias against race or ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.	Introduced: 2/15/2022 Status: 2/24/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S
AB 2429 Assembly Member Quirk	Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training: assessment of training requirements. Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to perform specified duties, including, among other things, partnering with academic researchers to conduct an assessment of existing officer training requirements and determining how well the existing officer training requirements are working for officers in the field. The bill would require the commission to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2025.	Introduced: 3/23/2022 Status: 3/23/2022-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
AB 2557 Assembly Member Bonta	Peace officers: records Would make records and information obtained from records maintained by an agency or body established by a city, county, city and county, local government entity, state agency, or state department for the purpose of civilian oversight of peace officers subject to disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act. The bill would require those records to be redacted only as specified. By increasing duties on local entities, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.	Introduced: 2/17/2022 Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.
AB 2583 Assembly Member Mullin	Peace officers: training Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Current law requires POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include instruction on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.	Introduced: 2/18/2022 Status: 3/10/2022-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2831 Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer	Sheriffs Current law sets forth the duties of a sheriff and requires a sheriff to command the aid of as many inhabitants of the sheriff’s county as they think necessary in the execution of their duties. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.	Introduced: 2/18/2022 Status: 2/19/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee March 21
SB 882 Senator Eggman	Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Development Disabilities and Law Enforcement. Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Existing law requires POST to include in its basic training course adequate instruction in the handling of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, or both. Current law also requires POST to establish and keep updated a continuing education classroom training course relating to law enforcement interaction with developmentally disabled and mentally ill persons. This bill would create the Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Development Disabilities and Law Enforcement, under the Department of Justice, to, among other things, evaluate existing training for peace officers specific to interactions between law enforcement and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.	Introduced: 3/23/2022 Status: 3/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 960 Senator Skinner	Public employment: peace officers: citizenship Current law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice to perform various functions involving the training of peace officers. Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, being at least 18 years of age, being of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation, and being either a citizen of the United States or a permanent resident who is eligible for and has applied for citizenship, except as prescribed. This bill would remove the provision that requires peace officers to either be a citizen of the United States or be a permanent resident who is eligible for and has applied for citizenship.	Amended: 3/10/2022 Status: 3/23/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 1000 Senator Becker	Criminal investigation Current law authorizes the Attorney General to appoint agents and other employees as the Attorney General deems necessary. Current law requires all persons employed within the Department of Justice designated as peace officers and performing investigative duties to obtain a certificate from the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.	Introduced: 3/16/2022 Status: 3/23/2022-Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
SB 1464 Senator Pan	Law enforcement: public health orders Current law requires all sheriffs to execute all lawful orders of a department in their counties. Current law authorizes each sheriff to enforce all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. Current law authorizes each peace officer of every political subdivision of the county to enforce within the area subject to their jurisdiction all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. This bill would instead require those sheriffs and peace officers to enforce those orders.	Introduced: 2/18/2022 Status: 3/22/2022-March 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

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