(For officers whose break in service spans one year to less than four years)
Purpose: Designed to update officers on essential legal, tactical, and interpersonal skills required for a safe and effective return to duty.
Overview: Provides a condensed review of critical peace officer competencies, ensuring compliance with current OPOTA standards. Updated instruction is presented in the areas of legal procedures, defensive tactics, crisis intervention, communication, and firearms requalification. Key topics may include:
- Arrest, Search, and Seizure (Legal Updates)
- Domestic Violence and Victim Response
- Crisis Intervention and De-escalation
- Interpersonal Communication and Ethics
- Defensive Tactics/Subject Control Techniques
- Use of Force and Threat Response
Assessment: Participants are evaluated within the course through practical skills assessments and knowledge checks; no external testing is required.
Outcome: Officers who successfully complete the refresher course are eligible to resume full peace-officer duties, pending firearms requalification and agency compliance with all other statutory training mandates.
(For officers whose break in service spans four years or more)
Purpose: Serves as an advanced, academy-level retraining program designed to re-establish core law enforcement competencies and integrate updates in law, tactics, and procedural standards.
Overview: Combines classroom instruction and practical exercises across all major areas of peace officer performance. The curriculum reflects current OPOTA standards and incorporates advanced topics to ensure that returning officers are fully prepared to re-enter active service. Curriculum topics (per current BAS alignment):
- Unit 2: Arrest, Search, and Seizure (12 hours)
- Unit 3: Domestic Violence (6 hours)
- Unit 3: Crisis Intervention (4 hours)
- Unit 3: Interpersonal Communication (4 hours)
- Unit 3: Missing Persons & Human Trafficking (2 hours)
- Unit 3: Responding to Victims’ Needs and Rights (2 hours)
- Unit 6: Subject Control Techniques (7 hours)
- Unit 8: Active Shooter / Threat Response (4 hours)
- Unit 8: Building Searches (four hours)
- Unit 8: Stops and Approaches (7 hours)
- TBD: ICAT (Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (12 hours)
- Past Two Years of Mandatory CPT Courses, including Legal Updates (16 hours)
Assessment: All evaluations are conducted during the course through integrated testing and skill demonstrations; no separate post-course testing is required.
Outcome: Successful course completion restores officer eligibility for active duty. Agencies remain responsible for confirming completion of required firearms requalification and other statutory training obligations.