J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      563

to be under the new subheading "Police Training Commission",
establishing a Police Training Commission, providing for its mem-
bership, prescribing its functions and duties. , and providing funds
for its operation.

The Legislature of Maryland hereby finds and declares that a
serious need for improvement in the administration of law enforce-
ment exists in order to better protect the health, safety and welfare
of its citizens; that police work, a basic adjunct of law enforcement
administration, is professional in nature, and requires proper educa-
tional and clinical training in a State whose population is increasing
in relation to its physical area, in a society where greater reliance on
better law enforcement through higher standards of efficiency is of
paramount need; that the present need for improvement can be sub-
stantially met by the creation of a minimum standards educational
and training program for persons who seek careers as law enforce-
ment officers wherein such persons will be required, while serving
in a probationary capacity prior to permanent appointment, to
receive efficient training in this profession provided at recruit and
in-service training facilities approved by a commission created for
such purpose; and that by qualifying and becoming proficient in the
field of law enforcement such persons shall individually and col-
lectively better insure the health, safety and welfare of the citizens
of this State in their respective communities.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 70A be and it is hereby added to Article 41 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume), title
"Governor—Executive and Administrative Departments", subtitle
"I. The Executive Department", to follow immediately after Section
70 thereof, and to be under the new subheading "Police Training
Commission", and to read as follows:

Police Training Commission
70 A.

(a) As used in this Act:

(1)  "Approved police training school" shall mean a school ap-
proved and authorized by the Police Training Commission to offer
a police training program as prescribed in this Act.

(2)  "Commission" shall mean the Police Training Commission or
officers or employees thereof acting on its behalf.

(3)  "County" shall mean any county which within its jurisdiction
has or shall have a law enforcement unit as defined in this Act.

(4)  "Law enforcement unit" shall mean any governmental police
force or organization of the State, county, or municipality which has
by statute or ordinance, the responsibility of detecting crime and en-
forcing the general criminal laws of this State.

(5)  "Municipality" shall mean any incorporated city of any class
which, within its jurisdiction, has or shall have a law enforcement
unit as defined in this Act.

(6)   "Permanent appointment" shall mean an appointment haying
permanent status as a police officer in a law enforcement unit as