12 CAR § 1-119. Police traffic radar operators and instructors
12 CAR § 1-119. Police traffic radar operators and instructors.
(a) Acts 1983, No. 672, as modified, established minimum training and certification standards for police traffic radar/lidar operators and instructors.
(b) Any full-time certified law enforcement officer or any person employed by a law enforcement agency or an Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training-approved training facility that has satisfactorily completed a police traffic radar/lidar course and the instructor development course may be a radar instructor.
(c) Law enforcement officers applying to be operators must successfully complete a commission-approved radar/lidar training course before taking any law enforcement action as a police traffic radar/lidar operator.
(d) A law enforcement officer who does not meet the standards and qualifications shall not take any official action as a police traffic radar/lidar operator, and any action taken shall be held as invalid.
(e) All certificates remain the property of the commission, and the Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training shall have the power to recall or revoke any certificate issued.
(f) The division shall establish the minimum curriculum requirements for the police traffic radar/lidar operator course.
(g) Requirements.
(1)(A) An officer must have completed the division-approved training for their appropriate level of certification before being eligible for certification as a police traffic radar/lidar operator.
(B) Grandfathered officers are exempt from this requirement.
(2) The division shall issue a certificate evidencing satisfactory completion of the requirements when evidence is submitted by the law enforcement department head that the police traffic radar/lidar operator or instructor has met the training requirements.
(3) Police traffic radar/lidar operators shall obtain a certificate issued by the division before taking any law enforcement action as a police traffic radar/lidar operator.