There is hereby authorized and established an annual in-service training program within the Police Academy, Division of Police, containing a maximum forty (40) hours curricula, reflecting the activities and duties relating to each separate rank within the Division of Police.
The curricula and instruction shall be established by experts in their respective fields, outside of the ranks of the Division of Police, and may include private guest lecturers and instructors. Such curricula may also contain any printed, graphic or electrically produced material.
The curricula and instruction, within each respective rank, shall be free of cultural, racial, and sexual bias and shall be job-related.
In addition, such course instruction shall include, but not limited to, such subjects as community relations, individual and group psychology, crowd control, race relations, proper procedures in evidence gathering and preservation, basic legal instruction regarding constitutional law and laws relating to apprehension and arrest of persons and the lawful obtaining of evidence, and such other job-related skill training and skill upgrading in basic police crime prevention and detection techniques, utilizing the latest available and most effective police science techniques.
Whenever possible, such curricula and instruction shall include innovative pilot projects and programs, approved by the Director of Public Safety, with emphasis in the areas of crime prevention, and detection, including but not limited to the use of police personnel in plain clothes or undercover capacities, especially in the areas of violent crimes against the person and all drug related offenses.
Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the establishment of any program of higher education for police personnel with any recognized institution of higher learning.
(Ord. No. 1126-75. Passed 7-25-77, eff. 8-1-77)