§ 24-5-320 — Preservice training; comprehensive test.

No reserve shall assume a detention officer function until he has completed successfully a jail preservice training program approved by the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 23 and passed a comprehensive test prepared by the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy and administered by the director of the local detention facility. Within one year of appointment, a reserve must successfully complete a jail operations training program promulgated by the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 23 in order to be eligible for continuation as a reserve. A reserve who serves more than one year must complete the same annual in-service training requirements as regular full-time detention officers. All training which is provided locally or regionally is subject to review by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Training Council and approval of the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 62, SECTION 1; 2008 Act No. 335, SECTION 9, eff June 16, 2008; 2010 Act No. 237, SECTION 50, eff June 11, 2010. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment substituted "South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy" for "Department of Public Safety" and "Chapter 23" for "Article 9, Chapter 6" throughout and in the fourth sentence deleted "Advisory" preceding "Council". The 2010 amendment deleted "jailer or" and "jailers or" before "detention officer" and "detention officers" in the first and third sentences respectively.