Bill Text: NJ A4712 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires six hours police officer in-service cultural diversity training every five years.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-21 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A4712 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4712-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4712

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires six hours police officer in-service cultural diversity training every five years. 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning police officer training and amending P.L.2016, c.23. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 2 of P.L.2016, c.23 (C.52:17B-77.14) is amended to read as follows: 

     2.    Every State, county, and municipal law enforcement department in the State and every campus police department at an institution of higher education in the State that appoints police officers pursuant to P.L.1970, c.211 (C.18A:6-4.2 et seq.) [may] shall provide six hours of in-service training of its personnel every five years utilizing the cultural diversity training course materials or online tutorial developed or identified by the Department of Law and Public Safety pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2016, c.23 (C.52:17B-77.13). 

(cf: P.L.2016, c.23, s.2)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month next following enactment. 

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires all police officers in this State to complete six hours of cultural diversity training course every five years. 

     Current law requires the Department of Law and Public Safety to develop or identify a uniform cultural diversity training course, including an on-line tutorial, which includes instruction promoting positive interaction with all members residing in the community, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.  The training course is available to every State, county, municipal, and campus police department for in-service training of its officers. 

     This bill changes this law to mandate that police officers receive a minimum of six hours of in-service cultural diversity training every five years.