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more office of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion. The Secretary of Public Safety and Correc-
tional Services, with' the approval of the Gover-
nor and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, appoints the remaining three members for
three-year terms. Each appointed member must
be a police official from a different geographical
area of the State. The eleven non-appointive
members may be represented by alternates, except
for the Deputy Secretary for Public Safety who
serves as the chairperson.
Subject to the authority of the Secretary of
Public Safety and Correctional Services, the Com-
mission (under Article 41, sec. 70A, of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland) is vested with the fol-
lowing authority, responsibilities, and duties: to
prescribe standards for the approval and continu-
ation of approval of entrance-level and in-service
schools at which police training and security
training courses required by this section shall be
conducted, including but not limited to present
existing State, regional, county, and municipal
police training schools; to approve and issue cer-
tificates of approval to such training schools, to
inspect such schools from time to time, and to re-
voke for cause any approval or certificate issued
to such school; to prescribe the curriculum, the
minimum courses of study, attendance require-
ments, eligibility to attend, equipment and facili-
ties, and standards of operation for such training
schools and to require that the curriculum and
minimum courses of study for entry and in-
service police training conducted by the State and
all county and municipal police training schools
include in each training cycle special training, at-
tention to, and study of the application and the
enforcement of the criminal laws concerning rape
and sexual offenses and related evidentiary proce-
dures, and also the contact with and treatment of
victims of these crimes; to prescribe minimum
qualifications for instructors at such schools and
to certify as qualified instructors for approved
training schools and to issue appropriate certifi-
cates to such instructors; to certify officers who
have satisfactorily completed training programs
and to issue appropriate certificates to such offi-
cers; to conduct and operate approved police
training schools; to appoint, with the approval of
the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services, an Executive Director, to serve at its
pleasure, who shall perform general administra-
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tive functions, and to fix his compensation; to
employ such other persons as may be necessary
to carry out the provisions of this subtitle, with
approval of the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services and the legislature; to make
such rules and regulations as may be reasonably
necessary or appropriate to accomplish the pur-
poses and objectives of this subtitle; to make a
continuous study of entrance-level and in-service
training methods and procedures and to consult
with and accept the cooperation of any recog-
nized federal, State, or municipal law enforcement
agency or educational institution; to consult and
cooperate with universities, colleges, and institu-
tions in the State for the development of special-
ized courses of study for police officers in police
science and police administration; and to consult
and cooperate with other departments and agen-
cies of the State concerned with police training.
The administrative staff of the Commission
also performs staff duties and responsibilities in
connection with the Correctional Training Com-
mission (Code 1957, Art. 41, sec. 70A).
SUNDRY CLAIMS BOARD
Chairperson: Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General
Louis L. Goldstein, Secretary; Gordon C. Kamka,
Member
One South Calvert Street
Baltimore 21202 Telephone: 383-3737
The Sundry Claims Board was established by
Chapter 440, Acts of 1961, to administer claims
filed by any prisoner in the Patuxent Institution,
the Maryland Penitentiary, the Maryland House
of Correction, or any other institution under the
supervision of the Division of Correction, who
has been injured in the course of his employment
at such institution while working for compensa-
tion. The Board consists of the Attorney General
of Maryland, or his representative, the Comptrol-
ler of the Treasury, or his representative, and the
Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services, or his representative. The
Governor designates one of the members to be
the chairperson and another to be the secretary of
the Board (Code 1957, Art. 41, sec. 188A).
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