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Required In-Service Training Topics 18 hours/credits
Online Department Topic of Choice 12 hours/credits
Courses The required In-Service Training topics for 2020 are:
• 2020 Firearms Training and
Qualifi cation 4 hours/credits
DETENTION OFFICERS • 2020 Legal Update 4 hours/credits
• Career Survival (2018) • 2020 Long-Term Effects of
• Communication Skills with Person in Crisis - Childhood Adversity 2 hours/credits
De-Escalation Techniques (2018) • 2020 The Signs Within: Suicide Prevention
• Detention Intelligence Update (2018) Education and Awareness 2 hours/credits
• Equality in Detention Practices (2018) • 2020 Career Survival: Training and
• Leadership Through Mentoring (2018) Standards Issues 2 hours/credits
• Recognizing Warning Signs and Strategies Associated • 2020 Communication Strategies When
with Mental Illness (2018) Encountering Persons Who are Deaf
• Individual Wellness: Coping With Stress and PTSD or Hard of Hearing 2 hours/credits
(2019) • 2020 Armed/Unarmed Security/
• Opioid Awareness and Response (2019) Company Police: Understanding Their
• Detention Intelligence Update: Gangs and Divisive Roles and Authority 2 hours/credits
Groups (2019)
• Detention Offi cer Legal Update (2019) The Department Topics of Choice for 2020 are:
• Inmate Suicide Prevention (2019) • Hazardous Materials 2 hours/credits
• Leadership and Professional Development (2019) • Bloodborne Pathogens 2 hours/credits
• 2020 Career Survival: Training and Standards Issues • Situational Awareness/Subject Control 4 hours/credits
• 2020 The Signs Within: Suicide Prevention Education • Law Enforcement Threat Assessment 4 hours/credits
and Awareness
NOTE: Agencies may instruct on any topic(s) of the Chief’s
INSTRUCTORS choosing for Department Topic of Choice.
• 2020 General Instructor Update: Assessing Student
Learning Through Testing Lesson Plans
Departments must use the current lesson plan as a minimum
for the required in-service training topics. Departments
should check the in-service website prior to any course
delivery to ensure instructors are using the most current
materials available.
The North Carolina Justice Academy has prepared several
FFrequently lesson plans which are OPTIONAL for use as department
choice topics.
A Asked The Chief or designee may approve a lesson plan developed
Q Questions by another entity, or may develop one of their own. If not
using an existing lesson plan, the instructor must develop
an actual lesson plan utilizing the Instructional Systems
Development (ISD) model as taught in the General
Instructor Training course.
What are the in-service training
requirements? SHERIFFS’ EDUCATION AND TRAINING
STANDARDS
For deputies, the in-service requirement for 2020 is 24
CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION AND hours/credits of mandatory training in the following
TRAINING STANDARDS topical areas:
The rules require that every law enforcement offi cer certifi ed
by the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards The required In-Service Training topics for 2020 are:
Commission must receive 24 hours/credits of in-service • 2020 Firearms Training and Qualifi cation
training annually in the following topical areas: • 2020 Legal Update
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