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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 679

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and
Administrative Departments

70A.

(d) Subject to the authority of the Secretary of
Public Safety and Correctional Services, the Commission is
vested with the following authority, responsibility and
duty:

(1)  To prescribe standards for the approval and
continuation 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;

(2)  To approve and issue certificates of
approval to such training schools, to inspect such schools
from time to time, and to revoke for cause any approval or
certificate issued to such school;

(3)  To prescribe the curriculum, the minimum
courses of study, attendance requirements, eligibility to
attend, equipment and facilities, 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, attention to, and study of
the application and the enforcement of the criminal laws
concerning rape and sexual offenses and related evidentiary
procedures, and also the contact with and treatment of
victims of these crimes;

(4)  To prescribe minimum qualifications for
instructors at such schools and to certify, as qualified,
instructors for approved training schools and to issue
appropriate certificates to such instructors;

(5)  To certify officers who have satisfactorily
completed training programs and to issue appropriate
certificates to such officers;

(6)  TO CERTIFY PERSONS AS POLICE OFFICERS WHO
HAVE:

(I)  SATISFACTORILY MET THE COMMISSION'S
ENTRANCE LEVEL STANDARDS; OR

(II)  PROVIDED THE COMMISSION WITH
SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT HE OR SHE HAS SATISFACTORILY
COMPLETED AN ENTRANCE-LEVEL TRAINING PROGRAM IN ANOTHER
STATE OF EQUAL QUALITY AND CONTENT AS REQUIRED BY THE
COMMISSION.