SB14 Alabama 2021 Session

Updated Apr 19, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Andrew JonesSenator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2021
Title: Law enforcement officers, requiring officers to have not less than 16 hours of crisis intervention training
Description: Under existing law, a law enforcement officer must successfully complete the law enforcement training course at an academy approved by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission before he or she can be a certified officer.
This bill would require the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission to provide mandatory mental health awareness training, which emphasizes crisis intervention concepts, for trainees in commission-approved academies.
This bill would also require a certified law enforcement officer to complete a continuing education course relating to mental health awareness.
Subjects: Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs