In-service Training

Utilizing the “Check Personnel Training Hours” should help you easily identify which officers need to be listed on the Exception Report (pages 2-4) of the LEA-84. You may print the Portal report to submit as supporting documentation for inclusion with your LEA-84 affidavit to supplement the Exception Report and to provide the form’s requested List of Employees that the affidavit form certifies as having completed all required training.

If there is training that is missing from an individual officer on the Check Personnel Training Hours report, it will show where your agency will need to focus on reporting to make sure that the officer isn’t listed as an exception and therefore in non-compliance.

REMINDER:

Training Category is CRITICAL for tracking eligible training, and only NMLEA accredited training (has valid NMLEA Accreditation Number) can be counted toward the additional/remaining required biennium hours.

Therefore, you should submit any training rosters by selecting “Mandatory Retraining (Biennium)” as the Training Category if a training submission has an NMLEA Accreditation Number, but is NOT one of the specific in-service training categories listed below:

• • • • • • Domestic Abuse
          • Child Abuse Incident
          • Ensuring Child Safety Upon Parental Arrest
          • Missing Persons and AMBER Alert
          • Tourniquet & Trauma Kit
          • Safe Pursuit Act
          • Detection, Investigation and Reporting of Hate Crimes
          • Firearms – (Not Handgun Requalification Scores)
          • Interactions with Persons with Mental Impairments
          • Legal Update
          • DWI/SFST Update or A.R.I.D.E. – only for officers who may be involved in the arrest of DWI offenders.

How To: Using the “Check Personnel Training Hours” page to view employee training hours per biennium category

1. To view the number of hours that your agency’s employees have completed within a given timeframe, hover over the Personnel tab at the top of your Acadis® Portal (Shown below) and select the “Check Personnel Training Hours” page. This page will break down the completed training hours by biennium training category.

2. By default, this page will show completed training hours for only the Current Calendar Year. By clicking the “Filters” button at the top-right of the page, specific date ranges for the completed training can be applied. Below, you see the ability to customize the date range to filter for a single year of the biennium or filter to view the entire biennium.

The LEA-84 form is dated for the overall Biennium Cycle (currently 2022-2023), but includes the annually mandated topics.

For this reason, agencies should submit an LEA-84 form EACH year of the cycle (for a total of 2 for the biennium).

The first will  ONLY be reporting the annual topics (usually the first or even-year of the cycle) – which only has the checkboxes marked for the highlighted topics that are shown in the screenshot below:

The second will include BOTH the remaining annual and all biannual topics (the odd year or final year of the biennnium cycle) – which has all checkboxes marked for the topics that are shown in the second screenshot below).

The NMLEA recommends that agencies report biennium compliance this way as it is the BEST way to ensure that compliance has been met and can be validated by the NMLEAB.

The statement in italics at the top-middle section of the form that states, “ALL supporting documentation is available for inspection at the reporting agency,” is fulfilled if the training has been submitted through the Acadis Portal and approved by NMLEA staff after reviewing the uploaded rosters or course completion certificates attached to the submission. All original rosters or course completion certificates are mandated to be maintained by the instructor or individual student or their agency for a period as defined in the Functional Records Retention and Destruction Schedule (FRRDS) of the New Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC). The current citation for law enforcement training records is 1.21.2.943 NMAC.

The bottom Notarized Affidavit statement provides a date for us to understand which LEA-84 corresponds to which reporting year of submitted forms, should there be a question during compliance reporting review.

**These forms MUST be mailed to the NMLEA at the address listed on the top of the form NO LATER THAN March 1 of each reporting year (2022 was due 03/01/2023; and 2023 is due 03/01/2024).**

A.         All New Mexico certified law enforcement officers shall receive a minimum of 40 hours of training bi-annually (every other year). Each two year in-service training cycle will begin on the first day of the subsequent even numbered year and conclude on the final day of the sequential odd numbered year.

          (1)           A minimum of four hours training shall be in safe pursuit pursuant to Section 29-20-3 NMSA 1978. – General Instructor Certification

          (2)           A minimum of one hour training shall be in domestic violence incident training pursuant to Section 29-7-4.1 NMSA1978, annually. – Domestic Violence Instructor Certification

          (3)           A minimum of two hours training shall be in the detection, investigation and reporting of a crime motivated by hate pursuant to Subsection B of Section 31-18B-5 NMSA 1978. – General Instructor

          (4)           For all officers who may be involved in the arrest of driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders as a normal part of their duties, four hours training shall be in NHTSA approved standardized field sobriety testing (SFST) protocols or successful course completion of the NHTSA approved 16 hour advanced roadside impaired driving enforcement course. – DWI/SFST Instructor Certification

          (5)           A minimum of one hour training shall be in ensuring child safety upon arrest pursuant to Section 29-7-7.3 NMSA 1978, annually. – General Instructor Certification

          (6)           Four hours training of academy approved day and night firearms training on agency approved weapons systems including, but not limited to, duty handgun, backup handgun, shotgun, and rifle.  No more than one hour training shall be classroom lecture.  A minimum of three hours training, divided equally between day and night training, and shall consist of practical exercises using live fire, Simmunitions®, Airsoft® or other firearms training systems.  Qualification testing may not be used as training to meet this requirement. – Firearms Instructor Certification

          (7)           A minimum of two hours training in child abuse incident training pursuant to Section 29-7-4.2 NMSA 1978, annually. – General Instructor/Child Abuse Instructor Certification

          (8)           A minimum of one hour training shall be in missing persons and Amber alert training pursuant to Section 29-7-7.4 NMSA 1978, annually. –  General Instructor Certification

          (9)           A minimum of two hours training shall be in academy accredited interaction with persons with mental impairments training pursuant to Section 29-7-7.5 NMSA 1978. – Interactions with Persons with Mental Impairments Instructor

          (10)         A minimum of 30 minutes training shall be in academy accredited tourniquet and trauma kit training pursuant to Section 29-7-7.7 NMSA 1978, annually.  – Tourniquet and Trauma Kit Instructor Certification from Bleedingcontrol.org or FLETC as examples.

          (11)         A minimum of two hours training shall be in legal update training to include changes in New Mexico state statutes and recent state and federal case law. – Professional Lecturer as a Legal Instructor (Attorney)

          (12)         Remaining training hours shall be in maintenance or advanced areas to meet the agencies specific needs.

B.        Required training may be received through the following means:

          (1)           Where scheduling will allow, the New Mexico law enforcement academy will assign staff to instruct the course at the academy and regional training sites.

          (2)           Curriculum developed by the New Mexico law enforcement academy will be provided to individual agencies upon request for their own certified instructors to present to their officers, provided the instructor is qualified in the subject matter.

          (3)           Individual agencies or private contractors may develop curriculum for review and approval (accreditation) by the academy which meets the criteria established by the board.

C.        This three-pronged approach gives all agencies the flexibility they need to address individual training needs.  It also allows the board to implement a planned program of in-service training that is responsive to the changing demands placed upon law enforcement and the opportunity to have statewide consistency in certain critical areas.

D.        Implementation is to begin on January 1, of the first even numbered year of a training cycle.

E.        Officers obtaining certification within an even numbered year will be required to obtain one-half of the in-service training requirements.  Officers obtaining certification within an odd numbered year will be required to meet the next two-year in-service training requirement which will go into effect on January 1 of the succeeding even numbered year.  The in-service training requirements are applicable in subsequent two-year cycles (one even number year and the subsequent odd numbered year constitutes a two-year cycle.  Officers transferring from one agency to another will carry with them the responsibility for in-service training.

[10.29.7.8 NMAC – Rp, 10.29.7.8 NMAC, 07/10/2018]

AUTHORITY:

A minimum of two (2) hours shall be in academy accredited interaction with persons with mental impairments training pursuant to 10.29.7.8A(9) NMAC.

RESOURCES:

Curriculum has been developed to meet the statutory requirements and Train-the-Trainer courses are being offered. All instructors who complete the Train -the-Trainer will be given the full curriculum to deliver the training to officers and telecommunicators state-wide. Please check the Advanced Training Schedule for dates and locations of classes.

• 2022-2023 In-Service Interaction with Persons with Mental Impairments LP
• 2022-2023 In-Service Interaction with Persons with Mental Impairments PPT
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