(a) In order to provide special training, including but not limited to professional, technical, physical and academic training, for members of the Police Department of the City of Los Angeles, and for the development of morale and esprit de corps therein, the Board of Police Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles is hereby authorized and directed to inaugurate and conduct such training and other activities within the said Department to the end that the members thereof may most efficiently perform their duties as peace officers of the State of California and as members of the Police Department of the City of Los Angeles.
(b) The Chief of Police shall have the authority to detail members of said Department who have volunteered for special physical training or who have volunteered for special training in academic, technical or professional subjects pertaining to the work of said Department under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Board of Police Commissioners, and for this purpose it is hereby authorized to provide for training of selected members of said Department with any municipal, State or Federal agency or educational institution which may agree to give such training. Selected members of the Police Department may likewise be detailed for services with other police departments, to study the methods thereof; to acquaint the members of the Police Department so detailed with criminals whose operations extend or may extend into the City of Los Angeles, for the study of new methods of crime prevention and detection, the organization of police departments and the like.
(c) Any such member who is detailed and assigned to take a special training course pursuant to this section shall be required to execute an agreement between the City and such member which shall prescribe the conditions under which the member shall be required to repay the City for the cost of such training, course. For the purposes of this section, a special training course is hereby defined to be such a course which is at least 12 weeks in duration or which requires the City to expend $1,000 or more on behalf of the trainee for registration, tuition, books, equipment, transportation, housing, per diem and similar expenditures.
(d) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to execute said agreement for and on behalf of the City which agreement shall be substantially in the form set forth below. Such agreement shall not be deemed a contract of employment between the City and the member executing the same.
The standard form of such agreement shall be as follows:
SPECIAL TRAINING AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into this ______ day of ___________,19_____ by and between the CITY OF LOS ANGELES, a municipal corporation, hereinafter referred to as CITY, and (Name of Member) , a member of the Los Angeles Police Department hereinafter referred to as MEMBER.
WHEREAS, training is needed for certain personnel in the Police Department and the training of said personnel in (Type of Training) will promote efficiency and economy in law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, Special Training is available through (Name of Institution Offering Training) which will provide the necessary skills and abilities to said member in the field of (Special Area) and
WHEREAS, (Name of Member) has been assigned to take the Special Training Course herein for which funds have been provided.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties herein agree as follows:
1. City agrees to pay for a Special Training Course to the extent it is not so provided by the outside Agency or Institution offering the training.
2. Member shall be paid their normal salary for their job classification while taking the Special Training Course herein referred to upon the basis of an eight (8) hour day, forty (40) hour week without any compensation for overtime or other adjusted compensation or premium pay based upon time spent in taking such Special Training Course.
3. Both the member and the City contemplate that upon completion of the Special Training Course, the member will remain in the employ of the City for some reasonable period of time during which the member’s newly acquired skills and knowledge will be utilized for the benefit of the City. Both the member and the City recognize that while the member is attending said course, the member is of limited value to the City. Both the member and the City agree that it is difficult to ascertain the loss which the City would sustain in the event said member, upon completion of the course, failed to remain in the employ of the City for a reasonable period of time. Therefore, the member and the City agree that if the member fails to remain in the service of the Police Department for three years after completion of a Special Training Course, but leaves by reason of voluntary retirement or resignation the member shall reimburse the City in the form of reasonable liquidated damages in an amount equal to one-half (1/2) the member’s monthly salary multiplied by the number of months or fractions thereof during which said member received special training plus the amount actually expended by the City for tuition, books and related costs of the Special Training Course; the amount thus established shall be reduced by two and seventy-five hundredths percent (2.75%) for every month or fraction thereof that the member remains with the Los Angeles Police Department following completion of the Special Training Course.
4. If member leaves the service of the Department because of death, prolonged illness, disability, or similar eventualities beyond the member’s control or because of termination for cause, said obligation to reimburse the City shall be deemed satisfied and member shall make no more payments to the City.
5. This Agreement shall not be deemed to be or construed as a contract of employment between the Parties hereto.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The CITY OF LOS ANGELES has caused this Agreement to be executed on its behalf by its duly authorized officers and MEMBER has executed the same the day and year first above written.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES,
By _____________________________
Chief of Police
By _____________________________
(Member)
ATTEST:
_____________________________
City Clerk
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 77,106.
Amended by: Ord No. 143,445, Eff. 7-21-72.