PRINTER'S NO. 417
No. 389 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY CORRIGAN, PRESTON, PESCI, TRELLO, COY, HALUSKA,
LESCOVITZ, STABACK, STRITTMATTER, HERMAN, SERAFINI, OLASZ,
STEIGHNER, KENNEY, BATTISTO, DALEY, DeLUCA, M. N. WRIGHT,
MICOZZIE AND BUNT, FEBRUARY 12, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 12, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359, No.120), entitled
2 "An act creating the Municipal Police Officers' Education and
3 Training Commission; providing for the commission's
4 membership, selection, compensation, and removal; providing
5 for the powers and duties of the commission; providing for
6 the appointment and duties of the chairman; providing for the
7 act's applicability to the civil service laws; requiring
8 training by certain political subdivisions and police
9 departments; providing penalties for violation thereof; and
10 making an appropriation," further defining "police officer,"
11 "police department" and adding a definition.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Section 2 of the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359,
15 No.120), referred to as the Municipal Police Education and
16 Training Law, amended or added December 20, 1984 (P.L.1197,
17 No.227) and December 21, 1988 (P.L.1865, No.180), is amended to
18 read:
19 Section 2. Definitions.--As used in this act:
20 (1) "Commission" means the Municipal Police Officers'
21 Education and Training Commission.
1 (2) "College" or "university" means any college or
2 university which has a campus police department as used in
3 section 2416 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175),
4 known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," which has been
5 certified by the Office of Attorney General as a criminal
6 justice agency within the meaning of the Criminal History Record
7 Information Act, 18 Pa.C.S. Ch. 91 (relating to criminal history
8 record information).
9 [(2)] (3) "School" means a training school or academy which
10 provides a basic police training course within the functional
11 organization of a police department or departments or any
12 educational facility within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
13 [(3)] (4) "Police officer" means any full-time or part-time
14 employe, of a city, borough, town, township, campus police or
15 university police, or county police department assigned to
16 criminal and/or traffic law enforcement duties, and for the
17 purpose of training only, security officers of first class city
18 housing authority, but shall exclude persons employed to check
19 parking meters and/or to perform only administrative duties,
20 auxiliary and fire police.
21 [(4)] (5) "Police department" means:
22 (i) any public agency of a political subdivision having
23 general police powers and charged with making arrests in
24 connection with the enforcement of the criminal and/or traffic
25 laws[.]; or
26 (ii) any campus police or university police department as
27 used in section 2416 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
28 No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," which has
29 been certified by the Office of Attorney General as a criminal
30 justice agency within the meaning of the Criminal History Record
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1 Information Act, 18 Pa.C.S. Ch. 91 (relating to criminal history
2 record information).
3 [(5)] (6) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the
4 Pennsylvania State Police.
5 [(6)] (7) "Political subdivision" means any county, city,
6 borough, incorporated town or township.
7 [(7)] (8) "Certification" means the assignment of a
8 certification number to a police officer after successful
9 completion of a mandatory basic training course or receipt of a
10 waiver of basic training from the commission and successful
11 completion of mandatory in-service training. Certification is
12 for a period of two years.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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