Section 250 IAC 2-10-2 - Instructor qualificationsAuthority: IC 5-2-1-9
Affected: IC 5-2-1-12
Sec. 2.
Instructors will be certified on the basis of minimal qualifications in the areas of education, training, and experience as follows:
(1) Requirements for primary instructors shall be as follows:(A) Any of the following:(i) A minimum of three (3) years of law enforcement experience.(ii) Be a member of the adjunct faculty or faculty of an accredited vocational school, college, or university.(iii) Be a physician or attorney licensed to practice in Indiana or a contiguous state.(B) At a minimum, be a high school graduate or have an equivalency diploma issued by an accredited high school.(C) Educational and experience requirements may be waived by the board, through its executive director, when a special or emergency training need exists.(D) Persons certified as primary instructors are considered by the board to possess the level of instructor skills needed to provide prebasic, distance education, and inservice training for law enforcement officers and others in the criminal justice system.(2) Requirements for psychomotor skills instructors shall be as follows: (A) At a minimum, be a high school graduate or have an equivalency diploma issued by an accredited high school.(B) Either have: (i) a minimum of three (3) years of law enforcement experience; or(ii) three (3) years of experience working in an area that is directly related to the psychomotor skill that the person will be teaching.(C) Educational and experience requirements may be waived by the board, through its executive director, when a special or emergency need exists.(D) Persons certified as psychomotor skills instructors are considered by the board to possess the level of instructor skills needed to teach a specific psychomotor skill to law enforcement officers and others in the criminal justice system. The specific areas in which a psychomotor skills instructor has documented advanced knowledge and skills will appear on the certificate issued by the board, through its executive director, such as psychomotor skills instructor (emergency vehicle operation) or psychomotor skills instructor (firearms-handgun).(3) Requirements for academy staff instructors shall be as follows: (A) A minimum of an associate's degree or more than sixty (60) hours of credit toward a bachelor's degree from a state accredited vocational school, college, or university.(B) A minimum of five (5) years of law enforcement experience.(C) Educational and experience requirements may be waived by the board, through its executive director, when it is felt that the individual will fill a special void that exists in an academy staff.(D) Persons certified as academy staff instructors are deemed by the board to have the level of skills necessary to instruct or assist with instruction, in any topic presented in the academy's course curriculum, but only after having been provided research time to prepare a lesson plan or after having been provided with a predeveloped lesson plan and time to review that plan.(4) Requirements for master instructors shall be as follows:(A) A minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or a combined background of experience and education that the board, through its executive director, recognizes as equivalent to a bachelor's degree.(B) A minimum of seven (7) years of law enforcement experience or law enforcement related experience. Two (2) years or more of this experience must have been spent as an instructor in an educational or training environment.(C) Persons certified as master instructors must be skilled at the following: (ii) Writing learning objectives.(iii) Preparing lesson plans.(iv) Developing practical exercises.(vi) Evaluating the results of training programs.(vii) Maintaining training records.(viii) Using technology effectively. Master instructors, by virtue of their certification, are qualified to act as the principal instructor in a board-approved instructor course.
(5) Requirements for provisional instructors shall be as follows:(A) The degree of education, training, and experience needed to qualify for provisional instructor certification shall be determined by the board through its executive director.(B) Provisional instructor certification is a temporary certification and may be issued by the board, through its executive director, in any subject area, for any period of time from one (1) day to one (1) year.(C) The board retains the same rights of review and revocation for provisional certification that it does for any other type of instructor certification.Law Enforcement Training Board; 250 IAC 2-10-2; filed Dec 23, 2003, 3:00 p.m.: 27 IR 1560; readopted filed Nov 30, 2010, 11:14 a.m.: 20101229-IR-250100663RFAReadopted filed 1/11/2017, 3:25 p.m.: 20170208-IR-250160381RFAReadopted filed 10/17/2023, 3:05 p.m.: 20231115-IR-250230533RFA