Peace officers and troopers are required to complete 11 hours of
Continuing Professional Training (CPT) before Jan. 1, 2017, in order to continue functioning as a peace officer.
Officers can take any training, approved by OPOTA, on any general law enforcement subjects to meet the 11 hours required by law. However, in order to be reimbursed, officers must take training on the critical subjects of:
- Community-police relations with a suggested focus on implicit bias, procedural justice, and Blue Courage (4 hours)
- Crisis de-escalation with a required focus on mental illness (2 hours)
- Constitutional use of force (2 hours)
As an option to fulfill the reimbursement requirements, those topics are combined in the course “Policing in the 21
st Century.”
The one-hour human trafficking update course, which is also required critical subject for reimbursement, is available in a separate online course through eOPOTA.
The remaining two hours of required training may be about general law enforcement topics, for which OPOTA has added five new, one-hour eOPOTA courses to choose from to fulfill the requirement:
- “Disability Training for Emergency Planners: Serving People With Disabilities”
- “Dose of Reality for Law Enforcement Officers: Being a Safe and Critical Consumer of Prescription Drugs”
- “Procedural Justice & Police Legitimacy”
- “The Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) for Law Enforcement”
- “Companion Animal Encounters” (This course fulfills a legislative mandate.)
For more information, send an email to
AskOpota@OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov.