Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

32010.7 External Administrative Responsibility of the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training (CPOST)

• The CPOST shall develop, approve and monitor training standards of rank-and-file through second-line supervisory correctional peace officers.

• Serve as the Correctional Peace Officer AP program administrator. Through Commission directive they prescribe the required guidelines through standards and establish measurable goals for the Correctional Peace Officer AP.

• Establish and maintain standards related to the instruction and training, including on-the-job training requirements for all correctional peace officers from rank and file through second-line supervisors.

• Maintain responsibility to review and confirm site-specific NEO schedules for new Correctional Officers meets standards.

• Evaluate the Correctional Peace Officer AP and JSP to ensure compliance with program tenets, in accordance with Department of Industrial Relations (DIRDepartment of Industrial Relations) requirements, PCPenal Code mandates, and BU 6 MOUMemorandum Of Understanding terms and conditions.

• Conduct periodic Program Support Evaluations at institutions to monitor institutional compliance to JSP and the Correctional Peace Officer AP.

• Meet with the FTS or institution designee to ensure JSP and the Correctional Peace Officer AP are being consistently executed at each institution.

• CPOST may evaluate the delivery of training at all locations where training is provided to ensure adherence to training standards.

• Enroll newly appointed peace officers, as needed, into the Correctional Peace Officer.

• The Executive Board of the CPOST shall be composed of six voting members pursuant to PCPenal Code section 13600(c)(1) – (c)(2):